mind

"I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard? I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records."

"I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimillionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am."

"The mind, like the body, has its contagious diseases and its scurvy. ...e catch everything from those with whom we come in contact; their gestures, their accent, etc."

"Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by distant causes than immediate ones. This would especially be true of …"

"Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State."

"The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds- social, economic, even ethnic- yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I di…"

"One of my friends whom I hold in high esteem admitted to me the other day that when he wants to work nowadays … he has to turn on his radio. The droning of the loudspeaker—so he says—puts him in a fav…"

"Theirs, too, is the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping."

"I am, therefore I think."

"Poverty can curdle the libido and corrode civilized thoughts. One's sense of humour vanishes, to be replaced by a curry-spoiling sarcasm as one's Mr Hyde emerges from the swamp of the subconscious."

"The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits."

"I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence."

"Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?"

"The person who merely watches the flight of a bird gathers the impression that the bird has nothing to think of but the flapping of its wings. As a matter of fact this is a very small part of its ment…"

"It isn't my profundity that makes me a mental marvel, it's the amazing detail of my perception. There's nobody else who can keep so many things on his mind at once."

"Maybe if I point to my brain it will work."

"The American people have been offered two lousy choices. One, which is corporatism, a fascist type of approach, or, socialism. We deliver a lot of services in this country through the free market, and…"

"Sometimes I enter prayer and I intend to prolong it, but then I hear a child crying, and I shorten my prayer thinking of the distress of the child's mother."

"As long as a society's best minds were occupied by theological questions, it was possible to speak of a given religion as the way of thinking of the whole social organism. All the matters which most a…"

"Mrs. Brisbane-Brown was a relic, but only the unthinking would have called her a snob. For snobbishness implies some sense of insecurity, and she was perfectly secure."