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01c. 1790 AD

To look at things as well as we can, to inscribe them in our memory, to be observant, and let no day pass without gathering something; then to apply one's self to those branches of knowledge which give the mind a sure direction, to apportion everything its place, to assign to everything its value (in my opinion a genuine philosophy and a fundamental mathesis), this is what we have now to do.

Goethe / quote

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02c. 1642 AD

True morality scorns morality; that is, the morality of the judgment scorns the morality of the mind, which is without rules.

Blaise Pascal / quote

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03c. 1790 AD

Unless we are accustomed to them from early youth, splendid chambers and elegant furniture are for people who neither have nor can have any thoughts.

Goethe / quote

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04c. 83 AD

Virtue, like a strong and hardy plant, will root when it can find an ingenuous nature and a mind not averse to labour.

Plutarch / quote

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05c. 1842 AD

We are awkward for want of thought. The inspiration is scanty, and does not arrive at the extremities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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06c. 1842 AD

We do not determine what we will think.... We have little control over our thoughts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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07c. 1842 AD

We have little control over our thoughts. We are the prisoners of our ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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08c. 1790 AD

We love a girl for very different things than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices, and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her for her understanding. Her mind we esteem (if it is brilliant), and it may greatly elevate her in our opinion; nay, more, it may enchain us when we already love. But her understanding is not that which awakens and inflames our passions.

Goethe / quote

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09c. 1842 AD

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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10c. 1842 AD

Wealth is the application of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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11c. 1790 AD

What has been written, as well as what has been actually done, shrivels up and ceases to be worth anything, until it has again been taken up into life, been again felt, thought, and acted upon.

Goethe / quote

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12c. 1790 AD

What is excellent should never be carped at nor discussed, but enjoyed and reverentially thought over in silence.

Goethe / quote

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13c. 1790 AD

What shapest thou here at the world; 'Tis shapen long ago; / The Maker shaped it, He thought it best even so. / Thy lot is appointed, go follow its hest; / Thy journey's begun, thou must move and not rest; / For sorrow and care cannot alter thy case, / And running, not raging, will win thee the race.

Goethe / quote

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14c. 1842 AD

When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,—when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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15c. 1790 AD

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

Goethe / quote

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16c. 1593 AD

Whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up, in the communicating and discoursing with another. He tosseth his thoughts more easily, he marshalleth them more orderly, he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself.

Francis Bacon / quote

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17c. 1842 AD

With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the Muses sing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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18c. 75 BC

Cultivation is as necessary to the mind as food to the body.

Cicero / quote

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19c. 75 BC

That elevation of mind which we see in moments of peril, if it is uncontrolled by justice, and strives only for its own advantage, becomes a crime.

Cicero / quote

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20c. 32 AD

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out, that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind that has fortune under its feet.

Seneca / quote

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21c. 32 AD

When an author is too fastidious about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his matter flimsy.

Seneca / quote

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22c. 1842 AD

Nothing is old but the mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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23c. 1790 AD

The mind must not yield to the body.

Goethe / quote

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24c. 32 AD

Overtasking the mind is an unwise act; when nature is unwilling, the labour is vain.

Seneca / quote

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