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Quotes About Mind

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.
~ Lao Tzu
We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.
~ Judy Tenuta
For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.
~ Joan Halifax
I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind.
~ Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
~ Rene Descartes
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
~ Ram Dass
I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.
~ George Carlin
Philosophy can make people sick.
~ Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Imagining something is better than remembering something.
~ John Irving
In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum.
~ Eminem
According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self.
~ Swami Vivekananda
An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
~ Gilles Deleuze
To be is to be perceived
~ George Berkeley
So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.
~ Georg Feuerstein
Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy
~ Austin O'Malley
let me forget about today until tomorrow
~ Bob Dylan
You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.
~ J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
~ W.B. Yeats
If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.
~ Steve Winwood
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
~ Eric Hoffer
Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.
~ Loren Eiseley