Zitat des Tages über Menschlicher Verstand / Human Mind:
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.
When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish.
The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Buddhism maintains that the common reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it's craving for more.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.
Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up a shark. These natural objects in motion and context make kids want to read; you can't stop them from reading and thinking.
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Problems only exist in the human mind.
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.