A Quote by Milan Kundera
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
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The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.
We have two main instruments: the mind and the heart. The mind finds it difficult to be happy, precisely because the mind consciously enjoys the sense of separativity. It is always judging and doubting the reality in others. This is the human mind, the ordinary physical mind, the earth-bound mind. But we also have the aspiring heart, the loving heart. This loving heart is free from insecurity, for it has already established its oneness with the rest of the world.
He who speaks from the lips chatters. He who speaks from an empty mind adds confusion to discord. He who speaks from a full mind feeds the minds of men. He who speaks from his heart wins the confidence of mankind. But he who speaks from his soul heals the heartbreaks of a world and feeds the hungry, starving souls of men. He can dry the tears of anguish and pain. He can bring light, for he will carry light.
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.
My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.
What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
Unlike most politicians who speak only from their mind, Amar Singhji thinks and speaks both from his mind and heart.
Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.
It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.
What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.
It is empirically indecent to make fun of the disabled... That's just indecent.
Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.
That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
A Godly leader ... finds strength by realizing his weakness
finds authority by being under authority
finds direction by laying down his plans
finds vision by seeing the needs of others
finds credibility by being an example
finds loyalty by expressing compassion
finds honor by being faithful
finds greatness by being a servant
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