#mind

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

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#credit #developments #discoveries #due #feel

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. ↗

— Clive Bell

#alliance #art #between #circumstance #ecstasy

I lost my mind at 15. I'd been shown a world where there were no boundaries, where everyone gave me all the power. And I was like, 'This is great!' Then that was gone. But I was like, 'Yeah, but I still want that.' I'd lost my humble, very quiet, introverted sensibilities which I think I definitely had as a kid. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#boundaries #definitely #everyone #gave #gone

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#because #complex #differ #even #greater

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#animal #before #body #company #connections

You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit. ↗

— Jack Black

#little #little bit #mind #you #your

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#cool #i #mind #most #people

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent. ↗

— Mos Def

#black #condition #i #loud #mind

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#been #centuries #change #democrats #enemy