Quotes About Human mind

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.

Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period.

I constantly yearn to celebrate life & its infinite manifestations, to examine the details of everything including the human heart & mind.

Inside the human mind, an idea is a mental spark that occurs as a response to the challenge of a train of thought.

Thoughts are the product of a machine we call the human mind. So manufacture some excellent thoughts.

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support?

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began.

Emotion assigns value to things, and reason can only make choices on the basis of those valuations. The human mind can be pragmatic because deep down it is romantic.

But in any case, understanding is one of the higher functions of the human mind and brain, and a unique one. Many other physical systems, such as animals' brains, computers and other machines, can assimilate facts and act upon them. But at present we know of nothing that is capable of understanding an explanation – or of wanting one in the first place – other than a human mind.

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.

The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.