Quotes About Mind

Don't ever let the competition make you angry. You must have clarity of mind to make your own decisions—not the ones that your competitors want you to make.

Do dead people like music? I hope they listen to mine if they do, in their coffins, in the cold underworld, between the mind and the body in an insomniac wall of sleep.

doesn't always work, but when a venture succeeds, there is nothing else quite like it for the mind and spirit.

Nothing's impossible. Our mind's limitations just tell us that certain things are beyond our understanding. Often, we have to solve a whole bunch of equations before we can accept new ideas. It's a question of time and of the limits of our brain.

Lider du av sömnlöshet eller jet-lag? - Ingetdera, jag låg och tänkte.

Och så länge han tänker på mig, finns jag.

This has suggested to some that the very structure of human thought is oppositional-that is to say, rational and associative, rather than linear and categorical.

They're such supreme egos. It's disgusting. I've never seen anything worse than an artist as a mind. It is very low, uninteresting as far as the relationship of men is concerned.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions

Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline ... reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the Spirit.

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.

What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, which it alone can make actual, which it alone can bring into the light of day.

It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Like everyone who possesses something precious in order to know what would happen if he ceased for a moment to possess it, he had detached the precious object from his mind, leaving, as he thought, everything else in the same state as when it was there. But the absence of one part from a whole is not only that, it is not simply a partial lack, it is a derangement of all the other parts, a new state which it was impossible to foresee in the old.

I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for the eyes, and even more, perhaps, for my mind, to which it appeared incomprehensible, without a cause, a matter dark indeed.

An artist has no need to express his mind directly in his work for it to express the quality of that mind; it has indeed been said that the highest praise of God consists in the denial of Him by the atheist, who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

Because happiness alone is good for the body; whereas sorrow develops the strength of the mind.

Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.

L'habitude! aménageuse habile mais bien lente et qui commence par laisser souffrir notre esprit pendant des semaines dans une installation provisoire; mais que malgré tout il est bien heureux de trouver, car sans l'habitude et réduit à ses seuls moyens il serait impuissant à nous rendre un logis habitable.