Human Mind Quotes - Page 17

• You cannot stop the human mind from working.

  Joseph Murray

  Mind, Humans

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• We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens.

  Johannes Kepler

  Song, Heaven, Bird

  TV Mini-Series "Cosmos", 1980.

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• Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it be laws or customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere, you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India, and in India only.

  Max Muller

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.33, Book Tree

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• The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Order, Mind

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• Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and striking contrariety between the life of an author and his writings... Those whom the appearance of virtue or the evidence of genius has tempted to a nearer knowledge of the writer, in whose performances they may be found, have indeed had frequent reason to repent their curiosity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Curiosity, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.163, Univ of California Press

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• Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

  Karen Armstrong

  Reality, Ideas, Mind

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• Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with which the human mind has not yet become familiar.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Order

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• This is the universal property of the human mind. Abstract rules form the core of everything from computer programs to grammars. Our results show that babies' minds are built to look for such rules - even without being told.

  Gary Marcus

  Baby, Mind, Looks

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• I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human minds are non-miraculous products of evolution, then they are, in the requisite sense, artifacts, and all their powers must have an ultimately mechanical explanation. We are descended from macros and made of macros, and nothing we can do is beyond the power of huge assemblies of macros.

  Daniel Dennett

  Mind, Evolution, Assembly

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• There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.

  Lucretia Mott

  Lying, Civilization, Organized Mind

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• In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, not vice versa. They are needed and invented to give meaning and purpose to the struggle that is life on Earth, to explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Struggle, Men, Giving

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• Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.

  Crystal Reed

  College, Psychology, Mind

  "Crystal Reed Talks TEEN WOLF, The Psychological Aspect of Season 3b, the Relationship Between Allison and Isaac, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 27, 2014.

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• I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to penetrate the cladding of sensory appearance and discern the abstract construction underneath - not always on demand, and not infallibly, but often enough and insightfully enough to shape the human condition. Our powers of analogy allow us to apply ancient neural structures to newfound subject matter, to discover hidden laws and systems in nature, and not least, to amplify the expressive power of language itself.

  Steven Pinker

  Thinking, Law, Keys

  Steven Pinker (2007). “The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature”, p.282, Penguin

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• My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

  William E. Gladstone

  Mind, Divine Revelation, World

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• In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Philosophy, Mind, Religion

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “My Religion”, p.105, The Floating Press

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• Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Errors, Mind, Library

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.311

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• the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion - that dark coinage of trembling ignorance! It is Religion - that poisoner of human felicity! It is Religion - that blind guide of human reason! It is Religion - that dethroner of human virtue! which lies at the root of all the evil and all the misery that pervade the world!

  Frances Wright

  Lying, Ignorance, Dark

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• In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mind, Revolution, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill (1867). “On Liberty by John Stuart Mill”, p.27

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• The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Soul, Mind, Path

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• The human soul is very much older than the human mind.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Soul, Mind, Spirituality

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• The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Tangled, Perception, Mind

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• The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to run itself, and we are obliged to follow it along, trying to keep up with it as best we can.

  Lewis Thomas

  Running, Book, Mind

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Lgbt Pride, Lgbt Community, Mind

  Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ch. 21 (1948)

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• 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, Views, Imagination

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• Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Order, Understanding, Mind

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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