An aristocratic air-head
What great company the Count must have been! A simile for an empty mind only occasionally polluted by the presence...
Hunger for the universal
Having had such a yearning for as long as I can remember, I was surprised by recognition in seeing it...
My head’s alive
Like an old cheese ... a surprising and original way to describe a lively mind, writhing with ideas and plans....
Large-hearted intelligence
I liked the linking of intelligence with large-heartedness, since heart and mind are often viewed as being in opposition, though...
Beware the bureau mind
Steerpike is icily calculating and glacially manipulative. He doesn't have a warm emotion to his name beyond the impulse to...
Mind as mirror
Mrs Kirkpatrick, step-mother to the heroine Molly, is a wonderful character in one of Elizabeth Gaskell’s finest novels. Published in...
One thing at a time
Saint-Exupery zooms in on the limited reach of our consciousness, with a manifest personal example.
The field of consciousness...
Of original, vigorous and expanded minds
A wonderful description of how Jane's potential to blossom intellectually and emotionally is triggered by her relationship with Mr. Rochester. ...
The merry mind
The actress Ingrid Bergman had a short relationship with the photographer Robert Capa. I love this quotation from a letter...
A transcendent mind
A capacious mind which rises above and speeds ahead of the spillth and swirls of world affairs, political, sociological or...
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