Quotes About Mind

defines a media-created "reality" whether or not it has a basis in true reality, around which individuals organize their thoughts, beliefs, and, in some cases, their lives.

The devout are always urged to seek the absolute truth with their hearts and not their minds.

The key to building distance in the long run is the ability of the mind to lie to the body — and be convincing.

It is consciousness that brings both suffering and enjoyment to the world.

On the long run, there is an experience of freedom, of a certain sort — the freedom of spending time with the mind.

As a writer, have faith in your unconscious mind. Unbeknownst to you, it will guide your story, make connections, and weave the tale for you

Will the same day ever come back, and with it Our amazement at having been in it, or will only a dark haze Spread at the back of the mind, erasing events, one after The other, so brief they may have been lost to begin with?

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

An "event" is something that happens that does not quite fit into our established system of knowledge, and so it will appear to us as something unaccountable, something that we cannot quite get our minds around even as we recognize the great importance of the encounter. Badiou identifies

The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can't fathom.

Pino forced himself to stop. He could not let fear take control of his brain. Fear had no business here. He had to think, and he had to think clearly.

Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can't fathom." "You sound like you do a lot of thinking in your shop," Pino said, wiping the sweat from his eyes. Luigi laughed. "A lot of thinking. A lot of talking. A lot of reading. It is . . ." The joy left his voice. "It was my home.

Your father is a wise man," the cigar trader said. "Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can't fathom.

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

I have 2 weapons; my arms, my legs and my brain.

Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about...That always worries me!

Dude, are my eyes seeing what my brain is telling my eyes that they're seeing?

The media know exactly what they're doing, focusing our attention on Arsenio's hairdo. We need to keep our brains brimming with rubbish. If we didn't, we might think about things.

How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.