mind Quotes

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.