mind

"We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right."

"If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness…"

"The holier one is, the more forbearing and loving he is; the more tender and patient and anxious to help others in every way. Think how forbearing and loving Christ is when we do wrong; and there we a…"

"Definitions, like questions and metaphors, are instruments for thinking. Their authority rests entirely on their usefulness, not their correctness. We use definitions in order to delineate problems we…"

"Communalism begets communalism. Ultimately, none gain; all lose, when communal thinking holds sway over us."

"I'm an atheist and I love religion. And I don't love religion in a snarky mean-spirited way; I unabashedly, sincerely love that we have religion because if we didn't, we wouldn't be here right now; be…"

"I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't."

"He said: "If I thought more of myself?"

"I go into things thinking, it will be a short story. It’s easier. It’s not overwhelming, and I know I can do that in a few weeks or a few months. If I go in thinking novel, it feels so overwhelming. I…"

"Mariam: What do you think?"

"A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness."

"On every film I do, whenever there are other girls my age, I think it's definitely up to me to set the pace. That's because I've had a lot of experience and I think there's always a certain amount of …"

"If you asked her about Sinai, she would probably think it was the plural for sinus."

"Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen. I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system."

"To speak of Hindu fundamentalism, is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals. To be an Indian Hindu is to be part of an elusive dream all share, a dream that fills …"

"Make your minds perfectly clear that if ever you let loose upon us again a general strike, we will loose upon you — another "British Gazette."

"I folded the paper and wriggled around in the seat. Buses are like candy bars, I thought. The price goes up and the size goes down. Each new bus seem to have less leg room and a lower headrest that it…"

"The systems approach is not a bad idea"

"It is not enough to "have" free speech. People must learn to speak freely. Noam Chomsky remarked in the sixties about the short-life ultra-radicals on campus who thought that Marx should have been bur…"

"I've always been a fan of the films, even the fifth, that I know some people didn't care for, I've always enjoyed them. I thought they were great. It really just got into the underdog story and how if…"