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• We are justified in calling numbers a free creation of the human mind.

  Richard Dedekind

  Math, Numbers, Mind

  "Essays on the Theory of Numbers".

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• When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

  George Washington

  Mind, President, Stories

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.227

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• Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.

  Humphry Davy

  Views, Mind, Progress

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• How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?

  Dan Simmons

  Memories, Mind, Lifetime

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Endymion”, p.72, Spectra

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• There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names. It is, however, pure and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward, confined to no forms of religion nor excluded from any, where the heart stands in perfect sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root and grows, of what nation soever, they become brethren in the best sense of the expression.

  John Woolman

  God, Christian, Heart

  John WOOLMAN (1840). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of ---”, p.238

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• The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.

  Alan Moore

  God, Mind, Humans

  "Moore's murderer" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2002.

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• In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Mind, Utterance

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• It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is more flatly contradicted by experience than the belief that a man distinguished in one or even more departments of science, is more likely to think sensibly about ordinary affairs than anyone else.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Men, Thinking, Practice

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• Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

  Kurt Gödel

  Mind, Machines, Mathematics

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• Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned to the recognition of the immense role abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials.

  Sigfried Giedion

  Play, Mind, Essentials

  "The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art".

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• To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

  Alan Cooper

  Rocks, People, Tree

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• The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Errors, Mind, Quality

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• If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain. And I flatter myself that it will not be ranked among the least grateful occurrences of your life to be assured that, so long as I retain my memory, you will be thought on with respect, veneration, and affection by your sincere friend.

  George Washington

  Memories, Grateful, Long

  George Washington (1948). “Basic Writings of George Washington”

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• Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task.... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules.

  Sarah Fielding

  Writing, Order, Mind

  Sarah Fielding, Christopher D. Johnson (1757). “The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia”, p.33, Bucknell University Press

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• Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Ignorance, Years

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• We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Running, Mind, Use

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• It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature.... This conquering of the inner man, understanding the secrets of the subtle workings that are within the human mind, and knowing its wonderful secrets, belong entirely to religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Knowing, Understanding

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.9, editionNEXT.com

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• The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Believe, Character, Mind

  Alfred de Vigny (1923). “Cinq Mars”

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• From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

  Robert Trout

  Nature, Pain, Men

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• The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

  A. E. Waite

  Lying, Ideas, Secret

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• All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Spiritual, Believe, People

  AMBER-ALLEN PUBLISHING Interview, www.amberallen.com. June 4, 2013.

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• One may ask the question as to the extent to which the quest for beauty is an aim in the pursuit of science. . . . It is, indeed, an incredible fact that what the human mind, at its deepest and most profound, perceives as beautiful finds its realization in external nature. What is intelligible is also beautiful.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Beautiful, Math, Science

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• Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Men, Thinking, Feelings

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• On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Religious, Ignorance

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• The human mind is like Salome at the beginning of dance, hidden from the outside world by seven veils. Veils of reserve, shyness,fear.

  Muriel Box

  Dance, Fear, Mind

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