When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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.
But in this age, logic was a flame that must be frequently starved of fuel.
But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind.
The surest pledge of a deathless name
Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
All thoughts that mould the age begin
Deep down within the primitive soul.