Quotes About Mind

A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. –Aristotle

A change of heart is the essence of all other change and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

Cruzaban por su mente los mismos pensamientos, inútiles para un hombre como él, sin gran talento, aunque no para Sófocles: lo accidental que es el sino, o lo accidental que todo puede parecer cuando es ineludible.

My right mind is just another name for my fears! My right mind is simply that inheritance of terror that I bring with me out of my ridiculous past! That tyrant, my superego, he should be strung up, that son of a bitch, hung by his fucking storm-trooper's boots till he's dead!

He was supposed to get through dinner not thinking about the only things he could think about. He was supposed to do this forever.

La mia mente divaga, - mi disse, un po' come se io fossi un medico passato di lí per informarmi sui suoi strani e inquietanti nuovi sintomi. - Arrivato in fondo alla pagina cerco di riassumere ciò che ho letto, e la mia mente è vuota: sono rimasto seduto in poltrona senza far niente. Certo, ho sempre letto i libri con la penna in mano, ma ora scopro che se non lo faccio, anche quando leggo una rivista, la mia attenzione non resta concentrata su quello che ho davanti a me.

Sharpening the writer's sense of reality. Feeding that great opportunistic maw, a novelist's mind.

to know, and by knowledge to lift up the mind from the dungeon of the body to the enjoying his own divine essence