Quotes About Mind

Anxiety has forged another weather.

Obviously, the final goal of scientists and mathematicians is not simply the accumulation of facts and lists of formulas, but rather they seek to understand the patterns, organizing principles, and relationships between these facts to form theorems and entirely new branches of human thought. For me, mathematics cultivates a perpetual state of wonder about the nature of mind, the limits of thoughts, and our place in this vast cosmos.

But man had changed. He had lost the old knowledge and old skills. His mind had become a flaccid thing. He lived from one day to the next without any shining goal. But he still kept the old vices—the vices that had become virtues from his own viewpoint and raised him by his own bootstraps. He kept the unwavering belief that his was the only kind, the only life that mattered—the smug egoism that made him the self-appointed lord of all creation.

buzz in his head was wonderfully liberating,

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.

The state of mind is by far the most superior of all.

The human race is not defined by the language that we speak, but by the actions that come from the human mind.

There is no evil in a man's mind, only temptation.

Thinking is the same as breathing. You stop thinking, you stop breathing.

You are a poet in your own right. Just free your mind and unleash the goodness in your heart to prove the hallmark of human talent and purpose.

The extension of human thinking is not only felt in dreaming when you are asleep. You can express it further by interpreting it in the outside world.

There are more and more people living with selflessness than those needing attention. Selflessness in their hearts, not in their minds.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

Controlling people's thoughts obviates the need to control their behaviour and the party has striven constantly to implant patriotic thoughts into the minds of the people.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

Nationalism, as a state of mind, is all fervour and no judgement. National pride, however, is a different and better thing.

He's experienced. He has a mind. He seduced me and took his time doing it. He's good company. He makes me think. Knowing him has changed me forever.

Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.

The radiation experiments are part of the climate and historical background for mind control experimentation.

The human mind, or spirit, extends outside the human body and interacts with the outside material world.

Anna O. had a third state as well, which today would be called a hidden observer, internal self helper, or center. This was an entity described as follows: "A clear-sighted and calm observer up sat, as she put it, in a corner of her brain and looked on at all the mad business" [p. 101].