#human mind

We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#grasp #here #human #human mind #impossible

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#among #beautiful #being #being beautiful #cannot

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#distrust #generally #greatest #human #human mind

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

#certainty #complete #consists #developed #equally

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind. ↗

— Mary Ritter Beard

#created #dogma #ever #fantastic #historical

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind. ↗

— Clive Bell

#activities #air #art #bosom #complicated

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

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

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#anyway #death #dying #everything #human