Quotes About Mind

Rather than a mind and a body, man is a mind with a body, a being who can only get to the truth of things because its body is, as it were, embedded in those things.

To think is not having but not having.

To think: to encircle an unthought.

The unconscious: excess of the perceptual over the notional.

The perceiving mind is an incarnated mind.

Lebenswely = ...wild being and wild mind--'mute' experience that must itself speak.

What lives in Nature is not mind or spirit, but rather the beginning of meaning in the process of ordering itself, but which has not fully emerged. The subject has to intervene in order to bring meaning out fully, but this disengagement of meaning is not constituting.

I found in the experience of the perceived world a new type of relation between the mind and truth...We experience in it a truth which shows through and envelops us rather than being held and circumscribed by our mind.

The structure of behavior is neither thing nor consciousness, and it is this which renders it opaque to the mind.

Deepen the notion of gnosia through that of praxia. It's a matter of grasping mind in its nascent state.

The flesh is not matter, is not mind, is not sunstance. To designate it, we should need the old term "element," in the sense of a general thing, midway between the spatio-temporal individual and the idea, a sort of incarnate principle that brings a style of being wherever there is a fragment of being. The flesh is in this sense an "element" of Being.

It is absolutely necessary to go back, to return to Freud.

Prior to stimuli and sensory contents, we must recognize a kind of inner diaphragm which determines, infinitely more than they do, what our reflexes and perceptions will be able to aim at in the world, the area of our possible operations, the scope of our life.

With psychoanalysis mind passes into body, as inversely, body passes into mind.

The unconscious is not a second consciousness, but a nonthematized lived experience.

The 'unconscious'...is simply the pre-objective, oneiric background of all perception.

In the last analysis, phenomenology is neither a materialism nor a philosophy of mind. It's proper work is to unveil the pre-theoretical layer on which both of these idealizations find their relative justification and are gone beyond.

The unconscious is a perceiving consciousness... it operates as such through a logic of implication or promiscuity,

Memory is the irruption of other things in us.

According to Hegel, one attains the absolute by way of a phenomenology (the appearance of mind; mind in the phenomenon). This is not because the phenomenal mind is on one level of a scale, after which one moves on to the absolute, but because the absolute would not be absolute if it did not appear as absolute. Phenomenology is the whole truth from a certain point of view.

In principle, the logician is only familiar with thetic consciousness.

The phenomenal layer is, literally, pre-logical and will always remain so.

En el silencio mandan los ruidos.

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.