#human mind

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ↗

— Voltaire

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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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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 first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

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