Quotes About Mind

Drugs, it seems to me, do not conjure demons, they access them.

There is only so much space on any one person's hard drive, and old memories are prone to replacement by newer ones.

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

That we can never know," answered the wolf angrily. "That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe to the present. Here and now, and nowhere else. For nothing else exists, except in our minds. What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.

I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.

The accumulated research into quantum physics has begun to explain how the mind, or consciousness, has always played a major role in determining our particular experience of reality.

Reality is neurology, and is not absolute.

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

Speak out, you got to speak out against The madness, you got to speak your mind, If you dare

There is little scientific data on the point, but evidently people do speak to themselves.

It is one of the fundamental mysteries of nature, this dichotomy between what is given and what we, with our minds, create. We owe our very existence as a species to our ability to delineate patterns. We can even see patterns where none exist – the faces in a sun-lit curtain, the Greek heroes and monsters among the stars. What else might the human mind be recognizing that is not really there? And what, in any case, do we mean by "real"?

The castle, and all it represents, will always be with us. Once it was born, once the stone was made living, the repository of power made real, the idea could never be unmade. Even if all the castles of all the world were destroyed, in the minds of men they would be built anew; the wizard called imagination would raise high walls and towers out of ruins.

In the end, it is not the power of the mind nor the strengths of the body but the instincts of the human heart that save the world. It is the simple human capacity for mercy that finally allows evil to be overthrown.

SOCRATES: No, I am not sure of anything. I never have been. But the god explained to me why that must be so, starting with the fallibility of the human mind and the unreliability of sensory experience.

Shoddy explanations that yield correct predictions are two a penny, as UFO enthusiasts, conspiracy-theorists and pseudo-scientists of every variety should (but never do) bear in mind.

Solipsism, the theory that only one mind exists and that what appears to be external reality is only a dream taking place in that mind, cannot be logically disproved.

Her sanity was perhaps an unwarranted assumption.

I've heard them say the heart's bottomless but I don't agree. I love my boys and girls but when my mind is clear I have to admit I wish I could give out more love.

Consistency is the defense of a small mind

It's interesting: As a god I almost always find, The more repressed the mortal, The dirtier the mind." -Poseidon

The more repressed the mortal, The dirtier the mind.

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

Loving to rush around is not proof someone is hardworking—it's only the restlessness of an agitated mind.