Alain de Botton Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Mind Quotes

Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.

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Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

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Law is mind without reason.

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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

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Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation.

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We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

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Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

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Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

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How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.

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Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

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The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

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Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

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To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

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Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.

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The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

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A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically.

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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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In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.

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