Quotes about the mind
Prepared by: Dmitry Sirotkin
I present to you a selection of quotes about the mind .
It is difficult to live without reason, but people still like to criticize it .
Quotes are grouped by topics: man and mind, life and reason, passions and reason, the meaning of reason, education and reason, love and reason, speech and reason, heart and mind, feelings and reason, art and reason, reason is, happiness and reason, peace and reason, religion and reason, purpose and reason, virtues and reason, God and reason, conscience and reason, spirit and reason, body and mind, delusions and reason, music and reason, etc.
Man and Mind
How terrible the mind can be if it does not serve a person. (Sophocles)
Reason is one of the human abilities. (Aristotle)
Man's advantage is reason. (E. Husserl)
The triumph of reason lies in getting along with people who do not have it. (Voltaire)
It is difficult to find a reasonable person and at the same time capable of action. (I. Goethe)
A living person, devoid of reason, is more terrible than a dead person. (C. Dickens)
The victory of reason can only be the victory of the reasonable. (A. Blok)
Everyone complains about their memory, but no one complains about their mind. (F. La Rochefoucauld)
The overwhelming majority of people are not able to think for themselves, but only to believe, and are not able to obey reason, but only authority. (A. Schopenhauer)
The only one who acted wisely was my tailor. He took my measurements again every time he saw me, while everyone else came up to me with their old measurements, expecting me to fit them. (B. Shaw)
Perhaps Homo sapiens has no more relation to intelligence than a spectacled snake has to a widespread optical device? (A. and B. Strugatsky)
You are chained to your own mind. It's very simple: the same leaf falls over and over again. But this is not enough for you, you also need to understand: how, why and why. But there is nothing to understand here, and still not to understand. (K. Castaneda)
For example, courage, when it has nothing to do with reason, but is similar to simple audacity: doesn’t a person, if he is bold not by reason, suffer damage, and if he is courageous by reason, will he not benefit? Isn’t it the same with prudence and understanding? With intelligence, education and upbringing bring benefits, but without intelligence, it brings harm. (Socrates)
Our civilization is still in the middle of its journey. We are no longer animals, because in our actions we are guided not only by instinct, but we are also not entirely human, because we are guided not only by the voice of reason. (T. Dreiser)
All people are brothers, but not all are brothers. (M. Zhvanetsky)
By the way, quotes about people
Life and Mind
What we are today is a consequence of our yesterday's thoughts, and today's thoughts create tomorrow's life. Life is a creation of our mind. (Buddha)
The whole life should be entrusted to reason alone, as a wise guardian. (Pythagoras of Samos)
Reason is the indicator of the path of life. (L. Tolstoy)
If we assume that human life can be controlled by reason, then the possibility of life will be destroyed. (L. Tolstoy)
If you do not sin against reason, you cannot come to anything at all. (A. Einstein)
Reason is given to man so that he can live wisely, and not just so that he can see that he is living unreasonably. (V. Belinsky)
A mind that is not organized by an idea is not yet the force that enters life creatively. (M. Gorky)
Reason, even if it is oppressed and neglected, ultimately always prevails, for it is impossible to live without it. (A. France)
Our minds make us forget that a description is only a description, and before we realize it, human beings imprison themselves in a vicious circle from which they rarely escape during their allotted lifetime. (K. Castaneda)
By the way, quotes about life
Passions and Reason
Anger destroys even the wise. (Solomon)
Reason shows us the goal, and passions lead us away from it. (J.-J. Rousseau)
Human reason owes a lot to the passions, which, admittedly, also owe a lot to it. (J.-J. Rousseau)
It is to passions that reason owes its most brilliant conquests. (Voltaire)
Reason is an incomparably higher ability, but it is acquired only by victory over passions. (N. Gogol)
For long, long hard years I taught myself the mind of the beast... (S. Yesenin)
Sensual attraction has such power that it can triumph over both reason and will. (T. Dreiser)
Our reason sometimes brings us no less grief than our passions. (N.S. Chamfort)
The one who is carried away by the demon of ambition is no longer able to be restrained by reason, and he rushes to where he is drawn by an irresistible force: he no longer chooses his own place in society, and this is decided by chance and illusion. (K. Marx)
The Meaning of Mind
Reason is given to man so that he understands: it is impossible to live by reason alone. (E.M. Remarque)
Reason serves to identify the truth, not a fact, but an inference. (Hobbes)
The first task of the mind is to reduce the unknown to the known. (E. Mounier)
The human mind has three keys that open everything: a number, a letter, a note. Know, think, dream. That's all there is to it. (V. Hugo)
The first task of the mind is to distinguish between true and false. (A. Camus)
Reason shows a person not only the appearance, beauty and goodness of each object, but also provides him with its actual use. (K. Prutkov)
With the help of reason, both good and evil deeds are accomplished. Moreover, good deeds are committed by a few and rarely, and atrocities are committed often and by many. If the gods wanted to harm people, then they could not have found a better way than to give them reason. (M. Cicero)
Education and mind
To support everything with the foundations of reason means to teach everything, pointing out the reasons, i.e. not only to show how something happens, but also to show why it cannot be otherwise. After all, to know something means to know a thing in a causal relationship. (Ya.A. Komensky)
Of all human abilities, reason, which is the unification of all others, develops most difficultly and later than all. (J.-J. Rousseau)
A child will always understand better what speaks to his eyes than what acts only on his mind. (V. Zhukovsky)
Education should not only develop a person’s mind and give him a certain amount of information, but should ignite in him a thirst for serious work, without which his life can be neither worthy nor happy. (K. Ushinsky)
Where there is cramming, there is a cheat sheet. This is the worst thing, it is death for the creative mind. (V. Sukhomlinsky)
Love and Reason
Love knows no logic, it is above reason. (D. London)
Reason gains value only when it serves love. (A. Saint-Exupery)
There is always a little madness in love. But in madness there is always a little reason. (F. Nietzsche)
Girl, be wise and demanding in love. Love is a hot feeling, but the ruler over it must be reason, reason. (V. Sukhomlinsky)
If we listened to our mind, we would never have a love relationship. We would never have had a friendship. We would never do this because we would be cynical. (R. Bradbury)
Love is an emotional thing, and being such, it is the opposite of pure and cold reason. And, as you know, I value reason above all else. As for me, I will never get married so as not to lose clarity of mind. (A. Conan Doyle / S. Holmes)
By the way, quotes about love
Speech and Mind
Everyone hears only what he understands. (I. Goethe)
To think means to talk to oneself, to hear oneself. (I. Kant)
For a speech to come out well, beautifully, shouldn’t the speaker’s mind comprehend what he is going to talk about? (Plato)
The mind is inexhaustible in conceiving concepts, just as language is inexhaustible in combining words. (A. Pushkin)
We can say that we have a mind as well as a language to communicate with other people. (K. Popper)
Widespread belief in words is a real disease of the mind, since such superstition takes us further and further from the foundations of man and seduces people into a catastrophic personal identity with any fashionable slogan. (K. Jung)
By the way, quotes about speech
Heart and mind
The heart has its own mind, which is unknown to our mind. (B. Pascal)
Our reason contradicts our heart and does not convince it. (I. Bunin)
A kind heart is more beautiful than all the minds in the world put together. (E. Bulwer-Lytton)
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. (M. Kundera)
The heart, imagination and mind are the environment where what we call culture is born. (K. Paustovsky)
The heart and mind are two inseparable parts of one inseparable whole. The mind should remain cool, but the heart should be hot. Manage to maintain clarity of mind at a moment when your heart is on fire, and you will begin to perform deeds that you could not even imagine before. (Solomon)
Feelings and Reason
If the feelings are not true, then our whole mind will turn out to be false. (Lucretius)
To exist means to feel, for feelings are incomparably higher than reason. (J.-J. Rousseau)
The main reason for the mistakes a person makes lies in the constant struggle between feelings and reason. (B. Pascal)
There is nothing in our mind that was not previously in our senses. (Ya.A. Komensky)
There are feelings that replenish and darken the mind, and there is a mind that cools the movement of the feelings. (M. Prishvin)
Coquetry is the victory of reason over feelings. (K. Chanel)
If a woman cheats, there is no need to look for reasonable reasons: it’s not all about the mind, but about feelings. (K. Chanel)
Art and Mind
Literature is the guidance of the human mind for the human race. (V. Hugo)
Dictated by feeling and even reason, the artist’s task is to include the person being portrayed in the system of his own artistic vision. (F. Kafka)
Only the spirit fertilizes the mind. The Spirit throws into him the seed of future creation. The mind will complete the rest. (A. Saint-Exupery)
Just as in the matter of the liberal arts I value reason little in comparison with the unconscious instinct, the springs of which are hidden to us, so in practical life I demand reasonable foundations, supported by experience. (A. Fet)
By the way, quotes about art
Reason is...
The mind is a burning glass, which, while ignited, itself remains cold. (R. Descartes)
Reason is the ability to see the connection between the general and the particular. (I. Kant)
Reason is the ability to create principles. (I. Kant)
Reason has always existed, just not always in intelligent form. (K. Marx)
Intelligence is the ability to overcome unfavorable circumstances. (F. Cover)
Reason, man's blessing, is also his curse. (E. Fromm)
The mind is the intellect in tune with your heart. (Osho)
The mind, once expanded its boundaries, will never return to its former limits. (A. Einstein)
Happiness and Reason
It is better to be unhappy with reason than to be happy without reason. (Epicurus)
I would not wish for happiness if for the sake of it I had to become a fool. If we value happiness, then we value intelligence even more. But, if you think about it, it turns out that choosing reason over happiness means being reckless. (Voltaire)
Happiness is an ideal not of reason, but of imagination. (I. Kant)
The best support in misfortune is not reason, but courage. (L. Clapier Vauvenargues)
Happiness has nothing to do with reason or ethics; in its very essence it is something magical, belonging to the archaic, youthful stages of humanity. (G. Hesse)
By the way, quotes about happiness
Peace and Reason
Everything that is real is reasonable, everything that is reasonable is real. (G. Hegel)
A reasonable person adapts to the world; unreasonable - tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, progress always depends on the unreasonable. (B. Shaw)
The absurd is born from the collision of the human mind and the reckless silence of the world. (A. Camus)
A person only needs to clearly understand that he is firmly locked within the walls of his mind and cannot go beyond its limits, even in madness, and that the appearance of the world or its gods largely depends on his own mental state. (K. Jung)
By the way, quotes about peace
Religion and Reason
Christianity and reason are incompatible. (Voltaire)
Never before has any religion, either directly or indirectly, dogmatically or allegorically, contained the truth. For every religion was born out of fear and need and invaded life through the delusions of reason. (F. Nietzsche)
The Kingdom of God will come to us only when church faith with miracles, sacraments and rituals is replaced by reasonable faith, without miracles, sacraments and rituals. The time is approaching. This faith is still in its infancy. But the embryo cannot help but grow. (I. Kant)
By the way, quotes about religion
Purpose and Reason
A person must have a goal, he cannot do without a goal, that’s why he was given reason. If he doesn't have a goal, he invents one. (A. and B. Strugatsky)
It is the one who stubbornly clings to his plans who will first of all feel the powerlessness of his mind. (H.G. Gadamer)
The mind is not a fire-breathing Dragon at all. Without rage and without joy, indifferently and as if lifelessly, he kills and disintegrates every desire and ridicules every goal. (L. Karsavin)
Virtues and Reason
Virtues can be harmful if they are not illuminated by the light of reason. (O. Balzac)
Above all virtues is reasoning, for every virtue without reason is empty. (Peter I)
Like any virtue, loyalty is worth something only as long as it is a matter of instinct or character, and not of reason. (I. Brodsky)
Firmness is strength based on the union of reason and will. Stubbornness is weakness that has the appearance of strength; it comes from an imbalance in the union of will and reason. (V. Zhukovsky)
God and reason
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. (Solomon)
Whoever God wants to destroy, he first deprives him of his reason. (Sophocles)
My mind tells me that God exists, but my mind also tells me that I will never know what it is. (Voltaire)
Anyone who wants to see the living God should look for him not in the empty firmament of his own mind, but in human love. (F. Dostoevsky)
Conscience and reason
The ideas to which reason chains our conscience are bonds from which one cannot escape without tearing one's heart, they are demons that a person can defeat only by submitting to them. (K. Marx)
Conscience sets tasks with its pain, reason accomplishes them. Conscience sets ideals, reason searches for roads to them. This is the function of the mind - to look for roads. Without conscience, the mind works only for itself, which means it is idle. (A. and B. Strugatsky)
Spirit and Mind
Universal modesty of spirit is reason, that universal independence of thought that treats every thing as required by the essence of the thing itself. (K. Marx)
The life of the Spirit is sometimes interrupted. Only the life of the Mind is continuous or almost continuous. (A. Saint-Exupery)
Temptation is the temptation to yield to the arguments of Reason when the Spirit sleeps. (A. Saint-Exupery)
Body and mind
A man's mind is stronger than his fists. (F. Rabelais)
Poor and useless mind! Sometimes you try to remove the shackles imposed by your body - in vain! Or are you a slave, obsequious and helpful; or an unsolicited adviser, condescendingly ignored; or an enemy and tormentor who poisons the soul, but you are never what you should be - a master. (L. Andreev)
Delusions and Reason
The mind does not have to choose if the choice is between truth and fiction. (M. Cicero)
There are people who never make mistakes because they never think about anything rationally. (I. Goethe)
It must show the errors of the human mind with noble fervor, but without malice. (N. Karamzin)
Music and the mind
Music is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds. (I. Turgenev)
Music stands so high that the mind is unable to approach it; it has an effect that subjugates everything, and no one is able to accurately understand its nature. (I. Goethe)
Our mind grasps at individual bars that replace each other and does not grasp the whole melody. (A. Adler)
Wisdom and Reason
The main thing is wisdom: acquire wisdom and with all your possessions acquire understanding. (Solomon)
Oh, wise ones, do not regret the powers of reason given to you, penetrating into the essence. (Dante Alighieri)
Wisdom: what comes in old age to replace reason. (Voltaire)
The danger of the wise is that he is most susceptible to the temptation of falling in love with the foolish. (F. Nietzsche)
By the way, quotes about wisdom
Faith and Reason
Faith in reason is not only faith in our own reason, but also, and even more than that, faith in the reason of others. (K. Popper)
Reason is barren if a person is devoid of hope and faith. The eras of the triumph of faith are beautiful, sublime and fruitful; on the contrary, the eras of the dominance of unbelief disappear without a trace, since no one is engaged in what does not bear fruit. (E. Fromm)
Science and Reason
Reason must submit to science. (G. Bashlar)
Reason, with the help of science, penetrates into the secrets of matter and indicates where the truth is. Science and experience are only means, only ways of collecting materials for the mind. (M. Lomonosov)
Science is, in essence, an innate respect for reason and rationality in the broadest sense. (A. Fet)
By the way, quotes about science
Chance and Reason
Luck is luck in which the testing mind is not involved. (Aristotle)
The human mind, in a popular expression, is not a prophet, but a guesser; it sees the general course of things and can deduce from it deep assumptions, often justified by time, but it is impossible for it to foresee an event - a powerful, instantaneous instrument of providence. (A. Pushkin)
By the way, quotes about fate
Animals and the mind
He who denies reason in the higher animals must have a little of it himself. (A. Schopenhauer)
Feelings distinguish us from animals more than reason. I've seen a cat show intelligence more often than I have seen a cat laugh or cry. (Unamuno)
Thoughts and mind
Truly, whenever rational thoughts are lacking, they are replaced by a cry. (L. da Vinci)
Feed your mind with great thoughts because you can never go higher than you think. (B. Disraeli)
By the way, quotes about thoughts
Evil and Reason
To renounce all evil, to increase goodness, to purify your mind: this is the advice of all Buddhas. (Buddha)
There is that power that is called reason. And you are able to weigh good and evil on the scales. (Dante Alighieri)
Stupidity and Reason
Where stupidity is a model, there reason is madness. (I. Goethe)
Prejudice is the mind of fools. (Voltaire)
Instinct and Reason
Instinct unites women much faster than reason unites men. (V. Hugo)
Reason is a complex instinct that has not yet had time to form. (A. and B. Strugatsky)
Silence and reason
When you talk too much, you cannot avoid sin, but he who restrains his lips is wise. (Solomon)
The more a person is silent, the more he begins to speak intelligently. (F. Nietzsche)
War and Reason
War... an event contrary to human reason and all human nature. (L. Tolstoy)
The task of a commander is to win as much with his mind as with his sword. (Yu. Caesar)
By the way, quotes about war
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Quotes and epigraphs for the “Reason and Feelings” direction of the final essay 2016-2017 in literature
A selection of quotes and epigraphs for the thematic area “Reason and Feelings” of the final essay on literature for the 2016-2017 academic year.
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Quotes and epigraphs
...Whoever has conquered his feelings, his consciousness is steadfast. "Bhagavad Gita"
At twenty, feeling reigns, at thirty, talent, at forty, reason. Baltasar Gracian y Morales
It is in the nature of rational beings to feel their imperfections; That’s why nature gave us modesty, that is, a feeling of shame in front of these imperfections. Charles Louis Montesquieu
Seeing and feeling is being, thinking, living. William Shakespeare
Every thought born from a moral idea is a feeling. Pierre Simon Ballanche
All knowledge originates from the mind and comes from the senses. Francesco Patrizi
If the feelings are not true, then our whole mind will turn out to be false. Titus Lucretius Carus
What are the hallmarks of what is truly human in a person? Mind, will and heart. A perfect person has the power of thinking, the power of will and the power of feeling. The power of thinking is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of feeling is love. Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
When the heart sings from love, the mind should not sing along, but conduct. Vadim Panov
If your heart and mind start an argument, don’t expect any good for yourself. Lyudmila Tatyanicheva
You can be the master of your actions, but we are not free in our feelings. Gustave Flaubert
Wisdom is a combination of knowledge and feelings. Ivan Efremov
Our reason sometimes brings us no less grief than our passions. Chamfort
Nothing stimulates mental activity to such an extent, forces one to discover new aspects of objects and phenomena, as conscious sympathies or antipathies. Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin
Morality is the mind of the heart. Heinrich Heine
You need to let your feelings out. It's worse if you stop doing it. Otherwise, they will accumulate and harden inside. And then - die. H. Murakami
The main reason for the mistakes a person makes lies in the constant struggle between feelings and reason. Blaise Pascal
To understand what is fair, to feel what is beautiful, to desire what is good - this is the chain of rational life. August Platen
Enlightened reason ennobles moral feelings; The head must educate the heart. Friedrich Schiller
Let everyone try to think and speak intelligently, but give up trying to convince others of the infallibility of their tastes and feelings: this is too difficult an undertaking. Jean de La Bruyère
Let your mind guide your affairs. He will not allow your soul to be harmed. Ferdowsi
