Mind Quotes by Richard Mitchell

Richard Mitchell

A mind can be overthrown by words; that’s the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the passive, who writes, ‘Delay should not be allowed to take place’ instead of ‘Hurry’? The user of the passive verb doesn’t want a universe in which responsible agents do their acts. You see? Bad language ultimately is IMMORAL.

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Writing

Richard Mitchell

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.

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Richard Mitchell

If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the task you have given yourself, that task of rearing a child wisely and well, is suddenly transformed from indoctrination to education, in its truest sense, and made not only possible but even likely–provided, to be sure, one little prerequisite, which is that you are not a child, that you have come into the grasp of your mind.

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Richard Mitchell

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.

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Richard Mitchell

There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.

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Mind Quotes by Richard Mitchell

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.

There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.

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