Henry James Mind Quotations
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- Rajneesh
- Dalai Lama
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Eckhart Tolle
- Samuel Johnson
- Napoleon Hill
- Swami Vivekananda
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- William Shakespeare
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- Deepak Chopra
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Ramana Maharshi
- Marcus Aurelius
- Thomas Jefferson
- Bhagavad Gita
- Terence Mckenna
- Albert Einstein
- Byron Katie
- Mark Twain
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Media Quotes
The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance.
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Office Quotes
The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as aware of itself as possible, since that awareness quickens the mental demand, which thus in turn wanders further and further for pasture. This action on the part of the mind practically amounts to a reaching out for the reasons of its interest, as only by its ascertaining them can the interest grow more various. This is the very education of our imaginative life.
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Art Quotes
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life - that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.