Mental Elevation Quotes

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.

There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences.

I'm on a higher plane with brain with a flame, feel the fire, desire the same.

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

My ideal audience is on the young side, eager to mutate and move to a higher level of consciousness. I want my images to turn the viewer's brain into what it is: a flying carpet.