Quotes About Mind

Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

The curious measure, of course, is that we fail to recognize the most obvious notion in all of this: that we ourselves are the best magicians we know. What our bodies do, what our minds accomplish, and the context we can give to things, how we make it all fit together, this is something.

I'm one of my sensations.

Pensar incomoda como andar à chuva Quando o vento cresce e parece que chove mais.

Nem sempre consigo sentir o que sei que devo sentir. O meu pensamento só muito devagar atravessa o rio a nado Porque lhe pesa o fato que os homens o fizeram usar.

Pensar é não compreender.

No sabes lo que cansa nunca dejar de pensar en uno.

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You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. — Buddha

The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.