#mind

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#deeply #immortality #learn #lies #life

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. ↗

— Aeschylus

#mind #physicians #words

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance. ↗

— Aesop

#look #mind #outward #outward appearance #should

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#amount #certain #doing #mind #nothing

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun. ↗

— Woody Allen

#consists #fun #his #man #mind

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#detail #every #full #given #i

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#come #conscious mind #help #i #may

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#mind #object #perception #perceptive #reaction

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#exists #eye #image #mind #only