Quotes About Mind

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

One of the lessons of Auschwitz is that it is infinitely harder to grasp the mind of an ordinary person than to understand the mind of a Spinoza or Dante.

Anche in questo siamo uguali. L'unica cosa che ci fa differenti è che tu, quando hai finito di parlare con loro, hai la possibilità di sentirti stanco. Puoi andare a casa e spegnere la tua mente e ogni sua malattia. Io no. Io di notte non posso dormire, perché il mio male non riposa mai." "E allora tu che cosa fai, di notte, per curare il tuo male?" "Io uccido...

hipnótica, «las sugestiones indirectas funcionan mejor que las directas».

estratagema que puede ser aplicada a todos los tipos de miedo: impulsar la propia mente a alimentar voluntariamente las fantasías espantosas provoca su anulación. De ahí que esta técnica sea la base de las formas más eficaces de terapia del miedo patológico y de las compulsiones obsesivas (Nardone 2002a, 2005, 2008).

it is obvious that all vices have a grievous effect on those who indulge them and often on others too. But I believe that the one which can transport us with the most unbridled haste into danger is anger. This is nothing other than a sudden thoughtless impulse, provoked by some perceived offence, which banishes reason and clouds the eyes of the mind, rousing the soul to blazing fury.

The most important of these functions are those of governing Blood and housing the Mind (Shen). Most

Mucho más potente que el oro es, en opinión mía, la inteligencia.

Onca kulak var, ama beyin çok az.

Success isn't outscoring someone, it's the peace of mind that comes from self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best. Success is a journey, not a destination--half the fun is getting there.

we should strive to grow consciousness itself — to generate bigger, brighter lights in an otherwise dark universe.

Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind.

This would be my torture: all that didn't bear thinking about would devote itself to forcing me to bear thinking about it.

She'd give him time, then logic. Men's minds were like wooden axles. Now and then they needed grease.

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

mass surveillance kills dissent in a deeper and more important place as well: in the mind, where the individual trains him- or herself to think only in line with what is expected and demanded.

I+V=R (Imagination mixed with Vividness becomes Reality.) The speaker pointed out that the mind thinks in pictures, not in words. And as we vividly picture in our mind what we desire, it will become a reality.

As a flying seed will debauch a whole meadow with flowers, one kiss, one caress not even wished for, had spoiled her peace of mind, even her good health.

Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.

Laughter is the only free emotion - the only one that can't be compelled. We can be made to fear. We can even be made to believe we're in love because, if we're kept dependent and isolated for long enough, we bond in order to survive. But laughter explodes like an aha! It comes when the punch line changes everything that has gone before, when two opposites collide and make a third and when we suddenly see a new reality...laughter is an orgasm of the mind.

Since learning causes our brains to grow new synapses, I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise.

Un désir oublié, qui pourtant veut renaître, Vient, dans sa longue paix, secouer mon esprit ; Mais, inarticulés, mes nouveaux chants peut-être Ne sont que ceux d'un luth où la bise frémit. Ah ! je sens un frisson : par de nouvelles larmes, Le trouble de mon cœur soudain s'est adouci. De mes jours d'autrefois renaissent tous les charmes, Et ce qui disparut pour moi revit ici.

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

The ridiculous arises out of a moral contrast, in which two things are brought together before the mind in an innocent way.