#human mind

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.


Arthur Schopenhauer


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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.


John Steinbeck


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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.


Lewis Thomas


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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.


Raymond Chandler


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From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.


Robert Trout


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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.


Richard Courant


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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.


Samuel Richardson


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All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.


Thomas Aquinas


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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.


Matthew Arnold


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Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.


Rudolf Arnheim


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