I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that read more

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the
soul of man.
[Lat., Animi read more

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the
soul of man.
[Lat., Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus.]

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can
not exist.
[Lat., In read more

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can
not exist.
[Lat., In animo perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non
potest.]

Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of
the human mind in ruins.

Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of
the human mind in ruins.

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those
of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perniciores read more

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those
of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

Nature's first great title--mind.

Nature's first great title--mind.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.