Gravity is a mystery of the body invented to conceal the defects of the mind.
Mind Quotes
Shakespeare leads the mind page, with David Hume, Eckhart Tolle, Byron and Horace behind him. Russell’s The ABC of Relativity (1925) is the sourced standout, observing that we all tend to think the world must conform to our prejudices.
“What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind” has a messy history, and the notes tell it. It is credited to Thomas Hewitt Key, who is said to have sent it to Punch in the 1860s, but it had apparently been printed earlier in a magazine called The Month, and it has been given to other people too. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve” is credited to W. Clement Stone and flagged misattributed. So is a line about the human mind progressing in spirals, credited to Madame de Staël.
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless.
The mind wishes for what it has missed, and occupies itself with retrospective contemplation.
All extremes does perfect reason flee,
And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.
"You damn sadist!" said mr. cummings,
"you try to make people think."
The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious.
Like men condemned to thunderbolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.
'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle,
Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.