#human mind

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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

— Rudolf Arnheim

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The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind. ↗

— Mary Ritter Beard

#created #dogma #ever #fantastic #historical

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind. ↗

— Clive Bell

#activities #air #art #bosom #complicated

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

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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. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#extract #far #harder #human #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. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#certainty #exists #gone #him #human

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society. ↗

— David Bohm

#fertile #function #generally #harmonious #help