#human mind

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#change #comprehend #future #human #human mind

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#extract #far #harder #human #human mind

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#certainty #exists #gone #him #human

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society. ↗

— David Bohm

#fertile #function #generally #harmonious #help

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. ↗

— Leonhard Euler

#day #discover #human #human mind #into

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#encourages #envision #explore #fiction #futures

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth. ↗

— Eliza Farnham

#aim #become #efforts #human #human mind

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#always #being #bravery #courage #cunning

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#animal #belong #consciousness #difficult #feelings

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#human mind #idleness #iron #like #mind