Quotes About Mind

Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.

I am not a collection of members which we call the human body: I am not a subtle air distributed through these members, I am not a wind, a fire, a vapour, a breath, nor anything at all which I can imagine or conceive; because I have assumed that all these were nothing. Without changing that supposition I find that I only leave myself certain of the fact that I am somewhat.

Je pense, donc je suis; English: I think, therefore I am)

To think? That's it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.

thence concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature consists only in thinking, and which, that it may exist, has need of no place, nor is dependent on any material thing; so that " I," that is to say, the mind by which I am what I am, is wholly distinct from the body, and is even more easily known than the latter, and is such, that although the latter were not, it would still continue to be all that it is.

I resolv'd to faign, that all those things which ever entred into my Minde, were no more true, then the illusions of my dreams.

The brutes, which have only their bodies to conserve, are continually occupied in seeking sources of nourishment; but men, of whom the chief part is the mind, ought to make the search after wisdom their principal care, for wisdom is the true nourishment of the mind; and I feel assured, moreover, that there are very many who would not fail in the search, if they would but hope for success in it, and knew the degree of their capabilities for it.

I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind.

I am, I exist.

Certainly no one can deny that we have such an idea of God in ourselves unless they think that there is no knowledge at all of God in human minds.

Is there anything more intimate or more internal than pain?

I am thinking, therefore I exist.

One needs to know what thought is, what existence is and what certainty is.

But, because I had already very clearly recognized in myself that the intelligent nature is distinct from the corporeal

I thence concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature consists only in thinking, and which, that it may exist, has need of no place, nor is dependent on any material thing; so that " I," that is to say, the mind by which I am what I am, is wholly distinct from the body, and is even more easily known than the latter, and is such, that although the latter were not, it would still continue to be all that it is.

I think, therefore I am"), the idea that the mere act of thinking about one's existence proves there is someone there to do the thinking.

But after I had imployed some years in thus studying the Book of the World, and endeavouring to get experience, I took one day a resolution to study also within my self, and to employ all the forces of my minde in the choice of the way I was to follow: which (me thought) succeeded much better, then if I had never estranged my self from my Country, or from my Books.

hay acaso algo más íntimo o más interior que el dolor?

Não há nada que dominemos inteiramente a nao ser os nossos pensamentos.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Pienso, luego existo" (Descartes)

I am, I exist" is necessarily true every time I utter it or conceive it in my mind.

y que dice que nada hay en el entendimiento que no haya estado antes en el sentido

There is such a strong connection between body and soul that thoughts that accompanied certain movements of our body at the beginning of our lives, go on accompanying them later.

I am, I exist, is necessarily true each time that I pronounce it, or that I mentally concieve it.