Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, School Quotes, Mind Quotes

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.

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To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

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That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind gets no clue to it. But the person who is alert, calm, self-restrained, and discriminating ignores the external world and, diving more and more into the inner world, realizes the glory of the Atman and becomes great.

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They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

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I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.

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Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.

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COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

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With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

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That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

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In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.

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Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust.

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The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.

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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

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Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

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Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

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It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

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