You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. Horace World Happiness
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. Victor Hugo Society Freedom
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust Power Happiness
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. John Keats Thinking
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. Voltaire Virtue
Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you. Carlos Santana
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. Ernest Hemingway Travel
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. Virginia Woolf
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. Virginia Woolf Intelligence
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. Theodore Roosevelt Man Society Morality
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. Carl Sagan Joy
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking. Phaedrus Thinking
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. Franz Kafka Spirit
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. William Butler Yeats Philosophy