Rakim Quotes

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are.

A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.

The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.

As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, As is the atom, so is the universe, As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

Minds differ still more than faces.

There is one mind common to all individual men

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far allow to state, as I said before, that the great regions of the mind correspond to the great regions of the brain.

The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else maybe, from the atom to the universe, everything except itself.

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

At the level of the mind, you are part of the human mind; at the level of the brain you are part of the global brain. This is a perfect example of becoming the change that you want to see.

But let us emphasize that right and wrong, righteousness and sin, are not dependent upon man's interpretations, conventions and attitudes. Social acceptance does not change the status of an act, making wrong into right. If all the people in the world were to accept homosexuality, the practice would still be a deep, dark sin.

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.

There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.