mind Quotes

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

My mind is my own church.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.