Quotes About Mind

For the last five centuries, ever since Gutenberg's printing press made book reading a popular pursuit, the linear, literary mind has been at the center of art, science, and society. As supple as it is subtle, it's been the imaginative mind of the Renaissance, the rational mind of the Enlightenment, the inventive mind of the Industrial Revolution, even the subversive mind of Modernism. It may soon be yesterday's mind.

the amount of information a communication medium supplies is less important than the way the medium presents the information and the way, in turn, our minds take it in.

la Red atrae nuestra atención sólo para dispersarla.

Ultimately, it's an invention's intellectual ethic that has the most profound effect on us. The intellectual ethic is the message that a medium or other tool transmits into the minds and culture of its users.

We feel our heart beat, our lungs expand, our stomach churn—but our brain, lacking motility and having no sensory nerve endings, remains imperceptible to us. The source of consciousness lies beyond the grasp of consciousness.

What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I'm online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

With the failure of the imagination to present form the mind discovers that it has the capacity to conceive of the infinite, and thus has the power to transcend everything that sense can measure and thus present. The sublime feeling in this case arises from the play between the finite nature of the senses and the infinite capacity of reason.

Like so many other would-be students of the mind, I had gone to sea to see the world, only to discover that all I was seeing was sea. Not even that: I was down below decks, studying the engine room of mental life, with no clear sense of where the ship was steering.

By thinking ahead of the present position, the mind is building up a substantial fear of the future, while the physiological and biomechanical processes of the body, untended by the conscious mind here at mile six, begin to break down because of the lack of attention. When

In order for you to improve as a runner, a truce must be declared. In order for a truce to be declared, the conscious mind must comprehend what's going on in the subconscious mind.

To the stalled mind, the present stage will always seem advanced. To the free mind, the present stage will always seem elementary.

She rolls onto her back and looks up at the dark ceiling, at the tiny speck of orange light leaking through the curtains from the streetlamp outside, and she tries to decide. "Are

every person's biggest trauma is still that person's biggest trauma. There is no relativity within the realm of one's own subconscious.

Never choose a man while under the influence of chemicals that mess with your brain, my friends. Never.

My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are.

Intellectuals who had made it to the West were beyond the reach of oppressive forces. They had a place of sanctuary. The fatwa changed all that. It redrew the boundaries of the free world, shrinking its borders and erasing zones of disputation from the map of the liberal mind.

Time has told me Your're a rare, rare find A troubled cure For a troubled mind

You must remember this: You can never have a Christian mind without reading the Scriptures regularly because you cannot be profoundly influenced by that which you do not know.

Behind her smile, her thoughts whirred like a pole lathe, back and forth, shaving the layers.

If you don't sleep, you don't dream.

Hild had forgotten how Begu's thoughts flocked like starlings, flicking this way then that.

If you walk as though your mind is easy, your mind believes your body and becomes easy. If your mind is easy, your body believes it and becomes easy: a basic feedback loop.

Never say the dangerous thing aloud.

You are a prophet and a seer with the brightest mind in an age. Your blood is that of a man who should have been king and a woman who is half sister to the king of Kent and wants to be a queen. That's what the king and his lords see. And they will kill you, one day. If not Edwin, then the king who kills him.