Quotes About Mind

Memories are important, like the bones of the mind. We build ourselves upon them, flesh and blood moulded around the pictures of what is past.

My mind is a warehouse of information like that, bushels of scrap paper filled with notes.

I stored the information for later use. My mind is a warehouse of information like that, bushels of scrap paper filled with notes.

When the contents of the collective unconscious become activated, they have an unsettling effect on the conscious mind of everyone. When this psychic dynamic is not consciously metabolized, not just within an individual but collectively, the mental state of the people as a whole might well be compared to a psychosis.

This parallel between physics and psychology should come as no big surprise, for it is the human mind that has created quantum physics in the first place.

The time will come when the mind will no longer fear the things it believes in; then man will be ashamed to have remained on the defensive for so long.

The credo of Asclepian or brain-oriented healing is 'don't just sit there, do something.' [...] The credo of Hygeian or heart-oriented healing is 'don't just do something, sit there.

The mind-closing danger of biased beliefs occurs when we don't know we hold them. Sometimes we have to swallow our pride and engage in clear-eyed analysis.

The way of the heart is much less environmentally deterministic than the brain and is based on a view of the universe as essentially a friendly place. The heart speaks in the language summarized by author Elizabeth Rivers: "When something doesn't go my way, I let go of my idea of how it should be, trusting that my mind [brain] doesn't know the larger picture.

Freud was not a scientist, although that's the way he thought of himself.

When there is no place for Zen in the head of our generation, it is in grievous trouble.

la vida (lo natural) no quiere todo; la palabra "todo" no tiene sentido para la vida, sino para el espíritu: el espíritu es el que quiere el "todo", el que piensa el "todo" y el que sólo descansaría en el "todo".

Greek tragedy operates through the ear. It is through the ear primarily that it enters the eyes, the senses, the mind, the heart. It must be spoken aloud. It is designed for that. And until that is done these plays have not been read, have not been used, have not been born.

Sometimes Anatole wonders just where the elusive point is, where you stop being sane.

He wondered if he'd completely lost his mind, but then figured that people who'd gone insane never wondered if they'd gone insane.

A thought flashed through Vader's mind, a stray thought, just for a moment: his Master dead, Vader ruling the Empire, the galaxy, unconstrained by the leash of an old man…

At the higher realms of rationality, even reason can begin to appear irrational.

In its early years, Islam encouraged philosophical and scientific speculation: to know how the world worked was to know the mind of God.

people can die of mere imagination - Geffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales

The scam boggles the mind when we consider that three of the top officers of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York publicly supported Bolshevism – Sanders, Peabody and William Boyce Thompson.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

Your adversary is the Devil, with his army of demons. Your battle with him rages not only all around you, but also within you, a fierce conflict for control of your mind, your heart, and your ultimate destiny.

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

Sometimes I think and other times I am.