#human mind

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

— Ezra Cornell

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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. ↗

— Madame de Stael

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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. ↗

— Karl Marx

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Problems only exist in the human mind. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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