Imaginary Discussion Thread on: Mind

The mind of men is a mystery; and, like the plant, each one of us naturally appropriates and assimilates that about him which responds to that which is within him.
- Joseph Roux

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well as the present.
- Epicurus

The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
- Vauvenargues

The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
- Milton

Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet.
- Richard Eberhart

Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
- Joseph Conrad

Almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
- Keats

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.
- Thoreau

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
- John Lyly

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
- Shelley

In the life of the spirit there are no facts, but only life, as it appears to us in one form or another.

- Luigi Pirandello