Quotes About Mind

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.

Des quantités de livres dorment ainsi en moi, des bons et des mauvais, de tout genre. Des phrases, des mots, des alinéas et des vers qui, pareils à des locataires remuants, reviennent brusquement à la vie, errent solitaires ou entament dans ma tête de bruyants bavardages que je suis incapable de faire taire.

Egzakt fogalmat nem birván az elme, Ti mégis mindig ezt keresitek Önátkotokra, büszke emberek.

Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

Calmness of behavior, composure of mind, should not be disturbed by passion of any kind.

We must recognize in each virtue its own positive excellence and follow its positive ideal, and the ideal of self-restraint is to keep our mind level

Read Hearn, the most eloquent and truthful interpreter of the Japanese mind, and you see the working of that mind to be an example of the working of Bushido.

The universe with all its stars and galaxies is a pinhead compared to the space inside the mind.

Una vez lanzada una acusación, por muy infundada que sea, la duda empieza a teñir la mente de quien la escucha.

Emperor would need a wife who was a companion, one with whom he could converse knowledgeably, one who would excite not only his passions, but also his mind.

Miranda doesn't dream, she simply rests. When Miranda's eyes are at ease, her mind is at peace.

Maybe it's true that if we do give in to worrying about what might happen, it's almost as if it has. We live the fear in our minds.

Necessary illusions enable us to live.

they said you were mentally healthy, but your madness is the worst

It is always the case: if your tooth hurts, your tongue keeps going there. You are always conscious of a wound.

One of the amusing aspects of this is that IF telepathy is what it is, then one need not be in the proximity of a telepath in order to have their mind penetrated.

This book, by Steven Pinker, is entitled THE BLANK SLATE: THE MODERN DENIAL OF HUMAN NATURE, and which, as the title unambiguously indicates, is a rather thundering broadside fired into the direction of the blank slate establishment. He is Professor of Psychology at MIT, has received many awards for his teaching, and for his earlier books HOW THE MIND WORKS, and THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT.

which of any two events is earlier and which later, combined with his consciousness of an instantaneous present that is continuously being transformed into a remembered past as it is replaced with an anticipated future.

For more details about all of this, see THE USER ILLUSION: CUTTING CONSCIOUSNESS DOWN TO SIZE published by Tor Norretranders

James Henry Hyslop

psychic aptitudes were powers not of the mind, but powers in themselves, and powers that at times actually transcended "mind," or cut across it, or, even, were capable of operating when what we call "mind" was asleep or unconscious — or, even, when clinically dead. Indeed