mind Quotes

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

I don't digest things with my mind.

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.