Mental Quotes

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse

When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

I’ve seen my name on marquees and bowed to standing ovations. I’ve also been called a fraud, a mental case, a heretic. People all over the country wait in line to hug me or curse me.

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.

Insomnia is revenge for the thoughts we have refused to have in the day.

We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

I resent having to prove that I’m not a retard.