#human mind

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

#caused #conquer #constant #constant flow #country

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

#evidence #exaggerate #human #human mind #impossible

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

— Rudolf Arnheim

#condition #human #human mind #mind #necessary

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

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

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#blow #brain #computer #facts #go

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#dominating #follow #human #human mind #mind

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#being #counting #experiences #human #human mind

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama. ↗

— Edward Bond

#drama #dramatic #human #human mind #itself

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#brought #closeness #grievous #him #hope