mind

"All the mysteries of consciousness flower in the body."

"I would not be my natural self if I did not utter my consciousness of my limited ability to meet your full expectation or to realize the aspirations within my own breast. But I'll gladly give all that…"

"Watts did two main things for me. He opened up the connections between what I was doing and the traditional Oriental philosophies. And he pointed me toward the distinction between Self and Mind."

"What is the good, I ask, in the name of common sense, of prohibiting sweating in this country if you allow sweated goods to come in from foreign countries? If you insist on limitation, of hours and up…"

"I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit."

"Did you know that you use less than 1% of your brain? The good news is that mind mapping can help you to access the other 99%!"

"Rational adventure in a physical setting is becoming increasingly rarer in the world. The evolution of technology and infrastructure has altered the kind of adventures that we can have, so that people…"

"I was lucky in that I was introduced to fame very-- in a very slow, incremental way."

"‘To write for others,’ she thought, ‘it seems one must be a spy—or a teller of tales.’"

"If we giv up our minds tew little things we never shall be fit for big ones. I knew a man once who could ketch more flies with one swoop ov his hand than enny boddy else could, and he want good at enn…"

"For me it's always been the visitation of characters. Since I was very young l've thought there is a natural creative spirit, a very romantic spirit, that we have within. That spirit seeks expression.…"

"I think so. I guess if I look back on it now, I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered."

"...Australian English may be thought of as a kind of fossilised Cockney of the Dickensian era."

"Is there a thinker apart from thought?"

"I have had, for my entire life, an extraordinary esteem for the person and for the thinking of that great philosopher. But I do not believe that attitude gives me the right to say anything publically …"

"History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody aro…"

"In talking of the Christian world, in English and, I suppose, in all the other languages of the Christian world we use two terms: Christianity and Christendom. Christianity means a religion, in the st…"

"But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educ…"

"hat speech... was political genius but jurisprudential danger, because he created an impression that Robert Bork really liked the idea of coat-hanger abortions, that he liked the idea of racial separa…"

"Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy."