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«To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.»
«Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.»
«Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere | About: Mind | Keywords: bias, biased, novelty
«We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.»
«We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.»
«Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.»
«To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead»
«To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.»
Author: Bertrand Russell (Logician, Philosopher) | About: Mind | Keywords: enthusiastic
«To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.»
«We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of cr»