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"O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora cæca!"
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Mind"The material particle or the conscious mind—has been discovered not to be sufficiently unchanging to be treated as a thing in isolation... but more often to be the opposite: a changing system in a changing environment."
The mind is that which thinks, feels, perceives, imagines, remembers, and wills. It covers the totality of mental phenomena, including both conscious processes, through which an individual is aware of external and internal circumstances, and unconscious processes, which can influence an individual without intention or awareness. The mind plays a central role in most aspects of human life, but its
"O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora cæca!"
"Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressd."
"Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins."
"Rationi nulla resistunt. Claustra nec immensæ moles, ceduntque recessus: Omnia succumbunt, ipsum est penetrabile cœlum."
"Whose little body lodged a mighty mind."
"Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species."