Quotes About Mind

I need to feel strongly, to love and to admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe. A letter from a friend, a Balthus painting on a postcard, a page of Saint-Simon, give meaning to the passing hours. But to keep my mind sharp, to avoid descending into resigned indifference, I maintain a level of resentment and anger, neither too much nor too little, just as a pressure cooker has a safety valve to keep it from exploding.

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests.

It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.

If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind.

And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with?

There are two questions: where have you come from, and where are you going? But the brain doesn't have separate regions for the past and future; only the present is differentiated by the brain. We split time into three parts. The brain, it seems, splits it twice only: now, and not now.

The physical memory blunders through the doors the mind has tried to seal. ... Wisdom says forget, the body howls.

And yet it is the language of our thoughts that tortures us more than any excess or deprivation of nature

I reflected that without language, or before language, the mind cannot comfort itself.

In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state. Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little. Feeling is frightening. Well, I find it so.

There is talk in the village that there is more in these sewers than sewerage. Yes, I say, Yes. But not only these sewers. There is more in your heart than can be spoken. More in your eyes than you will tell. More in the mind of you than anyone can know. More in the night than darkness. More in the river than can be dredged. What more ? The hate, envy, malice, greed, stupidity and evil that lie under the floor of everything. If I have secrets so do you.

Perhaps it is true that the world is made new again every day but our minds are not. The clamp that holds me will not let me go.

I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.

None can know the human mind. No, not if he read every thought man ever wrote. Every word written is like a child striking a flame against the darkness.

Eating was easy. Thinking was hard.

There is talk in the village that there is more in these sewers than sewage. Yes, I say, Yes. But not only these sewers. There is more in your heart than can be spoken. More in your eyes than you will tell. More in the mind of you than anyone can know. More in the night than darkness. More in the river than can be dredged. [...] If I have secrets so do you.

These two images put together explain why men find women so threatening . The world comes out of your body and...' (he was waving the Mona Lisa at me) 'we have no idea what's in your head. Do you know how frightening that is?

We were in Ireland. Was there ever a country so damp? I had to wring out my mind to think clearly. I was a morning mist of confusion.

Viitorul, prezentul È™i trecutul nu exist? decât în mintea noastr?, iar de la dep?rtare marginile li se micÈ™oreaz? È™i li se înceÈ›oÈ™eaz? precum graniÈ›ele unor ??ri duÈ™mane, v?zute dintr-un oras plutitor, tocmai de pe bolt?.

For a few moments we sat silent, then: 'So just you take care, what you think is the heart might well be another organ.

I did not realise that when money becomes the core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life or the mind will not be counted as good unless it produces measurable results. That public services will no longer be important. That an alternative life to getting and spending will become very difficult as cheap housing disappears. That when communities are destroyed only misery and intolerance are left.

This Captain had been brought up in Istanbul. His mind was made of minarets and domes. He capped himself with spacious ease. He was his own call to prayer.

If the demons lived anywhere it was here.