Quotes About Mind

One more in a long line, a dreary entity among many others like him, an almost endless number of brain-damaged retards. Biological life goes on, he thought. But the soul, the mind—everything else is dead. A reflex machine. Like some insect. Repeating doomed patterns, a single pattern, over and over now. Appropriate or not.

We cannot enter the monstrous schizophrenic morass of Nazi internecine intrigue; our minds cannot adapt.

the uproar of radios, traffic noises, the signs and people lulled him. They blotted out his inner worries.

Logically, Sherri should have squeezed every moment of pleasure out of life during her remission, but the mind does not function logically, as Fat had figured out. Sherri spent her time anticipating the loss of her remission.

When cab drivers recognize me, he decided, it's probably not in my mind. But when the heavens open and God speaks to me by name . . . that's when the psychosis takes over. It would be hard to distinguish.

Strano come un delirio persecutorio riesca di tanto in tanto a incontrare, per quanto brevemente, la realtà.

El mal es un elemento consustanciado con el mundo, se dijo el señor Tagomi. Se derrama sobre nuestra cabeza, entra en nuestro cuerpo, nuestra mente, nuestro corazón, hasta en las piedras de la calle.

The mind is strange, but it has its reasons. The mind sees in a single glimpse life unlived, hopes unrewarded, emptiness and silence where there should have been noise and love. . . . my mind had the solemn task of rearranging past reality in order that I could go on, and it was not doing a good job.

I think Dr. Willis McNelly at the California State University at Fullerton put it best when he said that the true protagonist of an sf story or novel is an idea and not a person. If it is good sf the idea is new, it is stimulating, and, probably most important of all, it sets off a chain-reaction of ramification-ideas in the mind of the reader; it so-to-speak unlocks the reader's mind so that that mind, like the author's, begins to create.

The summation of much pre-Socratic theology and philosophy can be stated as follows: The kosmos is not as it appears to be, and what it probably is, at its deepest level, is exactly that which the human being is at his deepest level — call it mind or soul, it is something unitary which lives and thinks, and only appears to be plural and material.

When something begins to devour the world, a serious matter is taking place. If the devouring entity is evil or insane, the situation is not merely serious; it is grim. But Fat viewed the process the other way around. He viewed it exactly as Plato had viewed it in his own cosmology: the rational mind (noös) persuades the irrational (chance, blind determinism, ananke), into cosmos.

Her mind was always off in some odd direction, flashing and echoing in its fullness, and baffling him eternally; he could never keep up with her, and so his awe of her continually grew.

If there's one thing that contemporary psychiatry has shown, it's that. Merely knowing that you are mentally sick won't make you well, any more than knowing you have a heart condition provides a suddenly sound heart.

thousand thoughts wandered loose in his head as he lay, fully awake. What

Is he sick because he sees this? Or does he see this because he is sick?

Nella tua mente c'è qualcosa che nessun altro ha. Ma non si tratta di precognizione. Di cosa allora? Hai senso dell'umorismo fu la risposta di Gretchen.

In a society where we rely upon pundits, analysts, and various forms of social media to shape our responses and tell us what we should feel and think, the twin viruses of complacency and apathy are given entre into our psyche. Numbing us out. The 'alien forces' that come to invade our minds are our own creation.

Yava? cinayetler vard?r, h?zl? cinayetler vard?r...Beden cinayetleri vard?r, ak?l cinayetleri vard?r. U?ursuz okullar?n?zda i?ledikleriniz gibi...

De manera que debo advertirle que cualquier cosa que piense podrá emplearse contra usted.

And when I gave my phone number the last two times I gave it wrong—another number. And to me the weirdest thing of all: at night phone numbers swim up into my mind that I never heard of before. I'm afraid to call them; I don't know why.

The heart can know peace but the mind cannot be satisfied; the drive to know, to possess intellectual certitude is doomed to failure.

The danger from the imaginative mind cannot be overestimated.

But it if was helping him, what would the criterion be? I mean, you know, if he only dreamed that he heard a voice telling him what to do, how to do it, this is a phantasm of his own mind. And yet, if the results are the same … It raises … Oddly enough, Paul, you'll be amazed to discover that I tend to want to treat the questionness of what is real.

You're confusing technology with culture. You look at this and say, 'What a great civilization man has built,' when you really mean, 'What a great technology mankind has developed.' There's all the difference in the world. Technology is of the mind and hands. Civilization is of the spirit—and spiritually we are still in the Dark Ages.