Sayings of great people about feelings, mind, intelligence and ego. Topic quotes for the direction "mind and feelings"

Quotes on the topic “Mind and Sensibility”
“There are feelings that replenish and darken the mind, and there is a mind that cools the movement of the feelings.” M. Prishvin
“Reason and feeling are two forces that equally need each other; they are dead and insignificant without the other.” V.G. Belinsky “If feelings are not true, then our whole mind will turn out to be false” Titus Lucretius Carus
“To understand what is fair, to feel what is beautiful, to desire what is good - this is the chain of rational life” August Platen-A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" (Onegin's mind and Tatiana's feelings),
- A. de Saint-Exupery “The Little Prince” (everything in the Prince - both mind and feelings);
- V. Zakrutkin “Mother of Man” (feelings that conquered reason)
Example of an essay on the topic “What is more important: mind or feelings?”
“What are the distinctive signs of the truly human in a person? Reason, will and heart. A perfect person has the power of thinking, the power of will and the power of feeling. The power of thinking is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of feeling is love,” wrote L. Feuerbach . What's in common?
between reason and feelings? Yes, that they determine a person’s actions. And then we can talk about the importance, sincerity, and correctness of a person’s actions, performed on the basis of reason and feelings. The topic is interesting because you can think about what is more important - the mind or feelings, and what is needed for their development.
World literature provides rich material for such reasoning. For example, the relationship of the main characters in A.S. Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin”. Tatyana Larina’s letter to Evgeniy Onegin deserves special attention. After all, it reflects the sublime love that the girl had for her chosen one, and at the same time - the characteristics of Tatyana’s character: sincerity, gullibility, impressionability. She has no reason to doubt her choice. For a young beauty, a union with a person like Eugene is not only the fulfillment of a cherished desire and a long-awaited reunion with a loved one, but also an opportunity for spiritual growth and self-improvement. Onegin, on the contrary, sees in his lover Tatyana only a naive, enthusiastic “simpleton” who was inspired by his stories and appearance. He does not take her feeling seriously, although he suspects that it will not go away so easily. Secular “games of love” prematurely made the hero’s heart immune to such signs of attention. Perhaps, if not for the rich life experience in this field, everything could have turned out differently for the couple. Tatiana's letter to Onegin is permeated with feelings that the girl can no longer keep to herself. She admits that the gap in upbringing, education and experience between them is huge, but hopes to someday overcome it in order to be closer to her beloved.
Evgeny refused Larina, citing the fact that he was not worthy of her, since he did not experience such elevated feelings and did not want to offend Tatyana with the baseness of his motives. In fact, the fear of making a mistake again (as happened more than once), the fear of responsibility for another person prompted the young rake to refuse; reason prevailed over the feelings that the “Russian soul” Tatiana awakened in him.
Her letter is a direct and courageous act. And Onegin is disingenuous in front of himself: “I love you with the love of a brother and, perhaps, even more tenderly.” He understood and appreciated Tatyana’s simplicity, her intelligence, and her pure, fiery soul. He noticed everything and understood everything about Tatyana. But I didn’t understand everything about myself. His logical arguments are convincing and flawless. But this is the beginning of the life drama of the heroes. Anything could be the reason for the separation of the heroes. But separation for lovers is always either a test or a punishment. Here it looks more like a punishment for Onegin (for the frivolous murder of a friend, for self-confidence and playing with feelings, with life) and a test for Tatyana. After separation - a new meeting and a new explanation. Now Onegin is overwhelmed with feelings. “I can’t resist myself anymore,” Onegin finally gives up. Reason and experience lost the duel with real feeling, which came to Onegin for the first time.
It is no coincidence that V.G. Belinsky wrote: “Reason and feeling are two forces that equally need each other, they are dead and insignificant without the other.” We find clear confirmation of this in the great novel by A.S. Pushkin.

Based on a brief commentary on the first direction for the final essay, I tried to select quote topics for it. I invite my colleagues to discuss them, I invite my students to choose the quote that is closest to their souls and try their hand at expressing their thoughts.

“The direction involves thinking about reason and feeling as two of the most important components of a person’s inner world, which influence his aspirations and actions. Reason and feeling can be considered both in a harmonious unity and in a complex confrontation that constitutes the internal conflict of the individual.

The theme of reason and feeling is interesting for writers of different cultures and eras: heroes of literary works often find themselves faced with a choice between the dictates of feeling and the prompting of reason."

Themes reflecting the unity of mind and feelings:

1. “Wisdom is a combination of knowledge and feelings.” Ivan Efremov

2. “Morality is the mind of the heart.” Heinrich Heine

3. “Reason acquires value only when it serves love.” A. de Saint-Exupéry

4. “When the heart sings from love, the mind should not sing along, but conduct.” Vadim Panov

5. “The heart and mind are only strong when they are at one.” Lyudmila Tatyanicheva

6. “Enlightened reason ennobles moral feelings; the head must educate the heart.” Friedrich Schiller

7. “Reason and passion are the rudder and sails ... of a soul sailing on the sea.” Jubran Hamil (Lebanese writer)

8. “The heart, imagination and mind are the environment where what we call culture is born.” K.G. Paustovsky

9. “All knowledge originates from the mind and comes from the senses.” Francesco Patrizi (Italian and Croatian philosopher)

Topics reflecting the confrontation between reason and feelings, which constitutes the internal conflict of the individual:

1.When the mind and heart are not in harmony

2.“ If the heart and mind start an argument, don’t wait for yourself of good". Lyudmila Tatyanicheva

3. “The main reason for the mistakes a person makes lies in the constant struggle between feelings and reason.” Blaise Pascal

There is a huge scope for argumentation of judgments expressing the essence of each topic. Moreover, in most works one can find both heroes “who have the mind of the heart” and those whose “mind and heart are not in harmony.” Sometimes the same character finds himself in one situation or another.

I will name only a few such works from Russian and foreign literature: A.S. Pushkin “The Captain’s Daughter”, I.S. Turgenev “Fathers and Sons”, L.N. Tolstoy “War and Peace”, V.V. Veresaev "Competition", A.I. Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet", I.A. Bunin. Stories from the series "Dark Alleys", A.I. Solzhenitsyn “Matrenin’s Dvor”, V.G. Rasputin “Farewell to Matera”, I. Efremov “Andromeda Nebula”, A. de Saint-Exupery “The Little Prince”, Ray Bradbury “451 degrees Fahrenheit”, etc.

Levels of consciousness. The structure of human personality. Reflections Khakimov Alexander Gennadievich

Appendix Sayings of great people about the mind, intelligence, feelings and ego

Application

Sayings of great people about the mind, intelligence, feelings and ego

A living being cannot stop wanting or feeling, he just needs to change the quality of his desires.

Bhagavad-gita, 2.71, comment.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of passions, but in the control of them.

George Bernard Shaw

Quotes about the mind

A short mind has a long tongue.

Aristophanes

Liveliness of mind is not very attractive to a person if it is not accompanied by correctness of judgment. It's not the good watch that goes fast, but the one that shows the exact time.

L. Vauvenargues

The ability to pose reasonable questions is already an important and necessary sign of intelligence and insight.

Lower your mind into the depths of knowledge - you will raise your heart to the skies.

To be delighted with oneself and to maintain an unshakable confidence in one's own intelligence is a misfortune that can only befall one who is either not endowed with intelligence at all, or endowed with it to a very small degree.

J. Labruyère

How often do people use their minds to do stupid things.

F. La Rochefoucauld

The world is transformed by those who have been able to transform themselves, knowing that the greatest skill comes from the control of the mind. When the mind becomes an obedient servant of man, the whole world will lie at his feet.

Inayat Khan Hidayat

A mind without reason is a ship without ballast or rudder.

W. Wycherley

While the heart is still fueled by desires, the mind retains illusions.

F. Chateaubriand

It's better to be simple and honest than smart and deceitful.

If you want to be smart, learn to ask intelligently, listen carefully, answer calmly and stop talking when there is nothing more to say.

L. Tolstoy

People who, without having their own mind, know how to appreciate someone else's, often act smarter than smart people who lack this skill.

V. Klyuchevsky

You can’t live without a conscience and a great mind.

Russian proverb

The bliss of the body is health, the bliss of the mind is knowledge.

The main thing in a person is not the mind, but what controls him: character, heart, good feelings, advanced ideas.

F. Dostoevsky

The acquisition of any knowledge is always useful for the mind, for it will subsequently be able to reject the useless and retain the good. After all, not a single thing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Leonardo da Vinci

Only the smartest and the dumbest cannot change.

Confucius

Usually, the more intelligence a person has, the less importance he attaches to it.

L. Mercier

The mouth is the gateway of the mind. If you keep them open, the mind will slip out. Imagination is the legs of the mind. If left unchecked, it will lead the mind astray.

Hong Zichen

During hours of idleness the mind becomes dull. Use peace to comprehend the light of reason. During hours of preoccupation with business, the mind becomes lost. Use the light of reason to achieve peace.

Hong Zichen

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that a person, by changing his inner mindset, can change the outer aspects of his life.

William James

Quotes about the mind

The mind enlightens the senses.

If a blind man has knowledge, he is better than an ignorant sighted man.

From the book "Avesta"

Reason is more valuable than all the riches of the world.

From the book "Avesta"

Only those who decide to remain ignorant are ignorant.

Prudence is the ability to curb your lusts and passions.

Whoever God wants to destroy, He first deprives him of his reason.

A. Aurelius

Reason is the gaze of the soul, with which it, by itself, without the mediation of the body, contemplates the true.

A. Aurelius

Reason is the bright light of the Divine Principle, casting its guiding rays on the mind.

Inayat Khan Hidayat

The triumph of reason lies in living in peace with those who have no reason.

F. Voltaire

A person has three ways to act wisely.

The first - the most noble - reflection.

The second - the easiest - imitation.

The third - the most bitter - experience.

Confucius

The mind, once expanded its boundaries, will never return to its former limits.

A. Einstein

A healthy mind sees only one path and follows it; the mind sees ten roads and does not know which one to choose.

We are the more free the more we act in accordance with reason, and the more enslaved we are the more we succumb to passions.

G. Leibniz

It is not easy to convince people to use their minds instead of their eyes.

B. Fontenelle

To understand what is just, to feel what is beautiful, to desire what is good - this is the goal of intelligent life.

A. Platen

Reasonable and moral always coincide.

L. Tolstoy

Explore everything, let your mind come first; let him lead you. And then, when you leave your mortal body, you will become immortal, and death will have no power over you.

The mind, becoming a servant of vice, an instrument of passion, a defender of lies, is not only perverted, but becomes sick, losing the ability to distinguish between truth and falsehood, good and evil, righteous and unrighteous.

W. Channing

Only that which is born of the mind and appeals to the mind can become a spiritual force for all humanity.

A. Schweitzer

We can expect the correction of evil not from changing the form of our life, but only from the spread of kindness and reasonableness.

L. Tolstoy

The heart can add intelligence, but the mind will not add heart.

A reasonable person does not pursue what is pleasant, but what saves him from trouble.

Aristotle

He is prudent who does not grieve about what he does not have, but, on the contrary, is glad about what he has.

Democritus

We all float on the waves of the ocean; reason serves as our compass, and passions serve as the wind that drives us.

The prudent person strives for the absence of suffering, and not for pleasure.

Aristotle

Reason is given to man so that he can live wisely, and not just so that he simply understands that he is living unreasonably.

V. Belinsky

Generosity of heart is the best inspirer of the mind.

A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky

We don't even have enough intelligence to appreciate our ignorance.

B. Verber

Look for love that comes not so much from the heart as from the mind - this is what is worthy of the individual.

Balthasar

Virtues can also bring harm if they are not illuminated by the light of reason.

O. Balzac

Reason is an incomparably higher ability, but it is acquired only by victory over passions.

N. Gogol

The purpose of the world is for reason to reign.

What passion decides is short-lived, fleeting; Whatever reason determines, you will never repent.

E. Rotterdamsky

The human mind is a sign of the highest life as we know it.

You can give in to force, but you meekly submit only to reason.

L. Blanki

Explore everything, give your mind first place.

Our age is such that it is proud of machines that can think, and is afraid of people who try to demonstrate the same ability.

Mumford Jones

Understand in order to believe.

Absalom Underwater

Faith questions, reason discovers.

Absalom Underwater

A stupid mind lets you go around the world.

Russian proverb

A stupid person will judge, but a smart person will judge.

Russian proverb

A wise man does not expose himself to the light, so he shines; he does not talk about himself, therefore he is glorious; he does not glorify himself, therefore he is deserved; he does not elevate himself, so he is the eldest among others.

He who knows people is intelligent, and he who knows himself is perspicacious.

He who, knowing a lot, behaves as if he knows nothing, is a moral man.

The untrue appears to be true, and the true appears to be untrue - such is the diversity of existence. Be reasonable!

Confucius

A wise person evaluates according to his own judgment, a fool trusts rumor.

Confucius

A wise man is temperate in his words, and a prudent man is cold-blooded.

Proverbs of Solomon (ch. 17, v. 27)

If a wise person hears a wise word, he will praise it and apply it to himself.

Proverbs of Solomon (ch. 21, v. 18)

There is no faster way to mastering knowledge than sincere love for a wise teacher.

You cannot solve a problem with the same consciousness that created the problem.

A. Einstein

Quotes about feelings

The thirst for pleasure makes one cruel.

To be sensual means to be suffering.

If the feelings are not true, then our whole mind will turn out to be false.

Lucretius

Never act in the heat of passion - you will do everything wrong. He who is not himself is not responsible for himself; passion drives out reason.

Balthasar

Everything is permissible for me, but not everything is useful; everything is permissible to me, but nothing should possess me.

Apostle Paul

The passions in man are constantly awake, looking out for their prey; the mind sleeps until it is awakened.

I. Herder

Feeling and thought, if carefully weighed, are like a blind man carrying a lame man.

F. Grillparzer

Who wants to rule over himself,

He must restrain his feelings sometimes.

A person becomes poorer in thoughts as he becomes richer in feelings.

F. Chateaubriand

Trusting unreasonable sensations is a characteristic of rude souls.

Heraclitus

People who live only by their feelings are animals.

L. Tolstoy

Meaningless feelings are the lot of animals; they humiliate a person.

V. Belinsky

Impulses and emotions do not explain anything; they always stem either from the power of the body or from the weakness of the spirit.

K. Levi-Strauss

Every feeling tends to turn into lust or aversion.

V. Dilthey

A man who can do whatever he wants will soon do what he shouldn't.

Velez de Guevara

Feelings are unreliable.

I. Saikaku

Passions not only do not allow us to see a given object from all sides, they also deceive us, showing us an object where it is not there.

Helvetius

If there were no reason, sensuality would overwhelm us.

W. Shakespeare

If a man never masters his feelings, he must master his expressions.

Aristotle

Lots of emotions - little reason.

Only an ascetic who has curbed his senses can fast at a feast, be healthy and calm alone with his wife, and sacrifice while being rich.

Chanakya Pandit

Master your passions, or they will master you.

The wall of emotions blocks a person’s external and internal world at the same time.

Absalom Underwater

Muhammad Azzahiri As-Samarkandi

Sad is the end of all passions.

The moment we begin to feel, we stop indulging in wise thoughts.

E. D. Bulwer-Lytton

All passions are good when we control them; everyone is bad when we obey them.

J.-J. Rousseau

People follow pleasures, rushing from side to side, only because they feel the emptiness of their life, but do not yet feel the emptiness of that new fun that attracts them.

B. Pascal

O happiness of knowledge! How much higher is it than the joy of imagination and feeling.

H. Borges

He loves because he loves, he doesn’t love because he doesn’t love - the logic of feelings and passions is short.

H. Borges

Illusion is, in essence, not the sensory world, but its evil, which, however, for our eyes constitutes the sensory world.

Free yourself, O heart,

From the captivity of earthly feelings,

From the joys of love,

From empty sorrows.

Go to the dervishes, my heart,

Sit down on their threshold

And perhaps you will become

Saints among saints.

Omar Khayyam

Patience and time give more than strength or passion.

J. Lafontaine

A person who is captured by his passions cannot be free.

Prudence enlightens, but passion blinds.

J.-B. Moliere

Our emotions are inversely proportional to our knowledge: the less we know, the more angry we become.

B. Russell

Passions are reptiles when they enter the heart, and violent dragons when they have already entered it.

Helvetius

A hot-tempered person will never know the truth.

Eastern wisdom

There is no sin heavier than passions.

Avoid frivolity, avoid passion and pleasure, for only the serious and thoughtful achieve great happiness.

Eastern wisdom

A restrained person has fewer mistakes.

Confucius

The driving force behind the development of modern civilization is pleasure, but the principle of pleasure ultimately destroys itself. The more a person strives for pleasure, the more he moves away from the goal of being happy.

V. Frankl

There is no pleasure that does not ultimately lead to satiety.

Pliny the Elder

Quotes about ego

F. Voltaire

He is the most empty person who is filled with himself.

M. Lermontov

An egoist is like someone who has been sitting in a well for a long time.

K. Prutkov

A person in love with himself cannot be capable of true love. Selfishness is a terrible vice that poisons love. If you are selfish, it is better not to start a family.

V. Sukhomlinsky

Selfishness is the root cause of cancer of the soul.

V. Sukhomlinsky

Selfishness is such a disgusting vice that no one will forgive in another person and no one will recognize in himself.

The ego is not your enemy, it is an illusion of who you think you are.

Upanishads

It is impossible to find peace until you take the path of service to others and self-sacrifice.

G. Van Dyke

A person is not given to understand if there is no love in him, and is not given to recognize if he does not sacrifice himself.

A. Lenormand

The main and greatest ignorance is ignorance of ourselves.

Egoism writes down in ink the evil done to it and in pencil the good done to it.

Everything that surrounds the egoist seems to him only a frame for his portrait.

J. Petit-San

He who loves himself very much is not loved by others, because out of delicacy they do not want to be his rivals.

V. Klyuchevsky

By trying for the happiness of others, we find our own.

Of all human passions, the strongest is pride, which, when offended, never forgives.

V. Belinsky

Selfishness makes us strive to please others.

C. Brentano

Living only for yourself is an abuse.

W. Shakespeare

He is good for nothing who is good only for himself.

F. Voltaire

The most honorable victory is the one gained over egoism.

Living only for yourself is a shame.

A. Ostrovsky

A person who thinks only about himself and seeks his own benefit in everything cannot be happy. If you want to live for yourself, live for others.

If a person loves only himself, then with the advent of difficult life trials he curses his fate and experiences terrible torment.

F. Dzerzhinsky

Selfishness kills generosity.

F. Dostoevsky

Brotherly love lives on a thousand souls, selfishness lives on only one, and a very pitiful one at that.

M. Ebner-Eschenbach

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and destroy himself?

Luke (ch. 9, v. 25)

Egoists are capricious and cowardly in the face of duty: they have an eternal cowardly aversion to bind themselves to any duty.

F. Dostoevsky

As long as our temporary self strives for eternal life, we will fail, just like a cancer cell. A cancer cell differs from an ordinary cell in its overestimation of its ego.

Why did the lamp go out?

I covered it with a cloak from the wind, -

That's why the lamp went out.

Why did the flower fade?

I greedily pressed him to my chest, -

That's why the flower withered.

Why did the stream dry up?

I dammed him up so that he could serve me, -

That's why the stream dried up.

Why did the string on the harp break?

I tried to get a sound out of her

exceeding her strength, -

That's why the string broke.

Rabindranath Tagore

There are many faiths, and all are not alike.

What does heresy, sin, Islam mean?

I chose to love you, God.

Everything else is insignificant rubbish.

When you refuse to live for yourself, do not give in to doubts. If you allow doubt to take over you, you will be ashamed of your lofty intentions. When doing good to people, do not demand gratitude from them. If you demand gratitude from them, your desire to do good will cause harm.

Hong Zichen

In order to successfully carry out our mission, we must help other people in every possible way on their path. By helping others, we help ourselves. Establishing and maintaining relationships with others is blocked when we cherish our own uniqueness to such an extent that we become completely absorbed in our egocentric world.

M. Newton

To love means to consciously learn to love yourself, that is, your true spiritual essence. Those who cannot take care of themselves cannot give anything to others.

D. Favors

Scripture Quotes

We can find satisfaction only when we wean our minds from thinking about sensual pleasures. The more we think about them, the less satisfied our mind is. Nowadays, people unnecessarily constantly excite their minds with thoughts of all kinds of pleasures, thereby depriving it of the opportunity to find satisfaction.

Bhagavad-gita, 17.16, comm.

A person's desires should not be aimed at satisfying the senses. One should desire only a healthy life, that is, self-preservation, for the purpose of man is to ask questions about the Absolute Truth.

Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.1.2

...the body is generated by the desire to experience sensual pleasures, and the senses are instruments for satisfying the desires of a living being.

Bhagavad-gita, 13.21, comm.

One who, like a turtle drawing its head and limbs into its shell, is able to withdraw its senses from the objects of sensory perception, has a stable, spiritual mind.

Bhagavad-gita, 2.58

One who, by following the injunctions of the sastras, is freed from attachment and aversion and controls his senses, can fully attain the mercy of the Lord.

Bhagavad-gita, 2.64

Above the mind is the mind, which determines the direction of the body’s actions, and above the mind is the soul. Therefore, if the soul acts under the direct guidance of the Supreme Lord, then the inferior mind, intelligence and senses naturally do the same.

Bhagavad-gita, 3.42, comment.

An intelligent person shuns pleasures born from the contact of material senses with objects of perception, for such pleasures are a source of suffering. All material pleasures, O son of Kunti, have a beginning and an end, and therefore the sage never indulges in them.

Bhagavad-gita, 5.22

Reason is the ability to understand the true nature of things, and knowledge is the understanding of what spirit is and what matter is.

Bhagavad-gita, 10.4–5, comm.

The mind is the soul's closest neighbor. Filled with lust, it forces the soul to accept the false ego and identify itself with matter, and therefore with the mind and feelings. Thus the eternal soul develops attachment to material pleasures, mistaking them for true happiness.

Bhagavad-gita, 3.40, comm.

The false ego, which manifests itself in the concepts of “I” and “mine” and is the basis of material life, also includes the ten organs of the body involved in material activities.

Bhagavad-gita, 7.4, comment.

One who performs his duty, regardless of the modes of material nature and false ego, who acts with great determination and enthusiasm, who remains unperturbed by success and failure, acts in the mode of goodness.

Bhagavad-gita, 18.26

The senses are so powerful and assertive, O Arjuna, that they can forcefully carry away the mind of even one who possesses spiritual knowledge and tries to curb them.

Bhagavad-gita, 2.60

By contemplating objects that bring pleasure to the senses, a person develops attachment to them, from attachment lust is born, and from lust - anger.

Bhagavad-gita, 2.62

It is said that the Supreme Lord, Krsna, cannot be seen, heard, understood or perceived by the material senses. But one who lovingly serves the Lord transcendentally and engages all the senses in this service, starting with the tongue, gains the ability to see the Lord who Himself reveals Himself to such a person.

Bhagavad-gita, 11.4, comment.

A foolish and ignorant person does not understand that the Supersoul, located in his heart, directs all his actions. Although the place, agent, effort and sense organs are the material causes of all action, the supreme cause is the Supersoul, the Personality of Godhead. Therefore we must see not only the four material causes, but the supreme efficient cause of everything that happens.

Bhagavad-gita, 18.16

A person who has cleared his mind of all sense-based desires and finds satisfaction only in his true Self is said to have pure, divine consciousness.

Bhagavad-gita, 2.55

The intelligence that can determine what should and should not be done, what should and should not be feared, what enslaves and what leads to liberation, is intelligence in the mode of goodness.

Bhagavad-gita, 18.30

O son of Pritha, the mind which is unable to distinguish between religion and irreligion, between permitted action and prohibited action, is in the mode of passion.

Bhagavad-gita, 18.31

The mind that takes irreligion for religion and religion for irreligion, is confused, immersed in darkness and constantly leads one astray from the true path, is a mind in the mode of ignorance.

Bhagavad-gita, 18.32