mind Quotes

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?