mind

"One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on…"

"Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind. When the mind becomes the pract…"

"The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The common place person begins to play, and shoots into the emp…"

"The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself."

"The habit of the religious way of thinking has biased our mind so grievously that we are — terrified at ourselves in our nakedness and naturalness; it has degraded us so that we deem ourselves deprave…"

"Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought."

"The most advanced socialist thought in England is Raymond Williams’ superbly intricate and persuasive work... Any English Marxism will have to measure itself against this landmark in our social though…"

"In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary."

"The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness."

"I was walking home the other night, and I was thinking about it, and do you worry that when you're old you will be on your own?"

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and diss…"

"To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind’s eye, wh…"

"Don't bother about the result. Throw away your thinking of art, and then become yourself: just walk quietly in yourself, in your own ground."

"Climbing to my mind finds its chief justification as an antidote for modern city life. One cannot sweat and worry simultaneously. The mountain resolves itself into a series of simple problems, unconfu…"

"A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity."

"Jalil: I think you look like a queen."

"The appeal of political correctness is that it attempts to change men’s souls by altering how they speak. If one sufficiently reforms language, certain thoughts become unthinkable, and the world moves…"

"The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everyth…"

"In the seventeenth century, it is said, there was a dissociation of sensibility. The poets could no longer think and feel at the same time. All we are saying is that something analogous happened while…"

"It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes."