#human mind

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 human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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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 can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

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

— Edward Bond

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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Irving Babbitt

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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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