George Sand Mind Quotations

If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.

And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.

art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties ...

the mind has no sex ...