Honore de Balzac Quotes

Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your thoughts. The kind of person you are comes from the way you think. And it bleeds into the way you feel. And such forth. If the mind is not free, then we won't be free.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

'Liberation' is an interesting word because you can be liberated from external things and also from your internal dialogue.

For me, 'rich' isn't having lots of money; rich is having loads of things in your head.

I'm winning even if I have zero pence in my bank account, because my mind's free.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

I was always free because I felt free. It's very important to be free inside. The most important thing is to feel free.

Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Your mind is a free port. There are no customs house officers to examine the cargoes that are unladen.

What could be wiser and to give people who can think the leisure in which to do it.

The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it pursues the gossamer and flies from object to object, lawless and unconfined, and it is equally necessary to the development of his frame that his thoughts and his body should be free from fetters.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.

I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.

To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is the task of the Freethinker.

True abundance has nothing to do with what I am having, but everything to do with what I am being.

The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.

Freedom begins between the ears.