Quotes About Mind

When you're in love, your heart and your mind are in sync, and everything just feels right. It's a special feeling.

In fact, it is more interesting to play someone whose politics is not in sync with my own politics because then I have to understand a different kind of mind and that becomes more interesting as an actor.

Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent thinking and knowing faculty, but always as a personality, always as a complete human entity, never can expound itself, because its operations are synthetic and not analytic; its mainspring is love and not mere knowledge.

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?

And if the prodigious genius of Azarya Sheiner has never found the solution, then perhaps that is proof that no solution exists, that the most gifted among us is feeble in mind against the brutality of incomprehensibility that assutalts us from all sides. And so we try, as best we cn, to do justice to the tremendousness of our improbable existence. And so we live, as best we can, for ourselves, or who will live for us? And we live, as best we can, for others, otherwise what are we?

Life, basically, is a nightmare until you learn to control the dream.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering.

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

Baseball is only dull to dull minds

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

gouverner l esprit des autres, et non faire le salut de son âme, ni rechercher le vrai ou le beau.

We are not helping people to get God right, but to get right with God. The Holy Spirit alone opens hearts and minds.

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

La réalité du monde ne lui apparaissait pas solide.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellence, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.

The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgment than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt.

The thinking of the mind is twofold: understanding and willing.