Mind

Mind

A mind ( /ˈmaɪnd/) is the complex of cognitive faculties that enables consciousness, thinking, reasoning, perception, and judgement—a characteristic of human beings, but which also may apply to other life forms.

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    The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    God of the people,
    no clod is too base for your thought,
    who made all will not cripple
    the mind with injunction.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

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