There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also to some extent present there.
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself. . . As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.
We learn from history that we do not learn from history
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of probability as a physical phenomenon associated with "randomness". Quite the opposite; we have thought of probability distributions as carriers of information.
I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt.
Creativity thrives on a consistent diet of challenges and opportunities, which are often one and the same.
Whatever is the scariest is almost always what I end up choosing.