Jack Vance - Mind Quotes

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If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.

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Consider the human mind! It is capable of amazing feats when used properly. Conversely, without exercise it atrophies to a lump of gray-yellow fat.

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The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.

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Kergan Banbeck threw up his hands, turned once more to the sacerdote. How can I halt his nonsense? How can I make him see reason?
The sacerdote reflected. He speaks not nonsense, but rather a language you fail to understand. You can make him understand your language by erasing all knowledge and training from his mind, and replacing it with patterns of your own.

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Poor Pymfyd! Your world is built of fear and dread! As for me, I have no time for such emotions.
Pymfyd spoke in an even voice. You are a royal princess and I may not call you a witless little fool, even should the thought cross my mind.
Madouc turned him a sad blue-eyed glance. So that, after all, is your concept of me.
I will say only this: persons who fear nothing are soon dead.

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Down we go, said Paddy. Now pray to Saint Anthony if you be a good Catholic—
I'm not, snapped Fay, and if you'll give more mind to the boat and less to religion we'll gain by it.

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The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations.

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