Quotes About Mind

Like Ada Lovelace, Turing was a programmer, looking inward to the step-by-step logic of his own mind. He imagined himself as a computer. He distilled mental procedures into their smallest constituent parts, the atoms of information processing.

Your body moves always in the present, the dividing line between the past and the future, but your mind is more free. It can think and is in the present. It can remember and at once is in the past. It can imagine and at once is in the future, in its own choice of all the possible futures. Your mind can travel through time. (Eric Frank Russell, 1941)

Thought interferes with the probability of events, and, in the long run therefore, with entropy. —David L. Watson

Thinking generates entropy.")

Theories permit consciousness to 'jump over its own shadow,' to leave behind the given, to represent the transcendent, yet, as is self-evident, only in symbols.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

President Reagan likes to say Uncle Sam is a kindly old man with a spine of steel, and that he is. But I want to see Uncle Sam as well with a mind and with a heart and with a soul and a conscience.

I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind. An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Strong moral arguments exist for why we should often try to ignore stereotypes or override them. But we shouldn't assume they represent some irrational quirk of the unconscious mind. In fact, they're largely the consequence of the mind's attempt to make a rational decision.

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious.

'Subliminal' is about how we misinterpret our behavior because we're unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

You learn emotional experiences as much as you learn cognitive experiences, except that they are more unconscious. Sometimes one represses the cognitive component of it, but it's often more difficult to repress the emotional component.