Quotes About Mind

He turned away from the bar as if he could leave the question there. But questions had no location; they could follow him around.

Everyone has a secret place in his mind. Otherwise relationships would be impossible.

It's at times like this I hate the brain. It always builds more barriers than it can topple.

The essence of it all—this is the important part—was the knowledge that my thoughts had been real. Not just the things I said and did. What went on in my mind as well, positive or negative.

When matter is put aside, all creation becomes exclusively mental, that's all.

Was the life force something more than words, a tangible, mind-controlling potency? Was nature somehow, in him, maintaining its spark against its own encroachments?

He ignored that, beginning to suspect his mind of harboring an alien. Once he might have termed it conscience. Now it was only an annoyance. Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic.

They won't accept reasonable things with their minds but the fantastic things they'll swallow whole when their emotions are brought into play. Because the emotions have no limits on belief. The emotions will swallow anything—and they do.

And he wonders, deep in the self-isolated recesses of his mind whether he is killing himself with anger, whether he is destroying his system with fury.

supuesto umbral de la conciencia. Ahí es donde radica la fascinación

Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought.

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.

When the power of saying is small, the power of thinking is small.

I have made and accepted my own version of the natural order of things, and actually supposed a universe that has, or damn well ought to have, my convenience in mind.

Stay sane inside insanity.

On the ride back south, she tapped all the anger-management tricks they'd given her in job training. They played across her windshield like PowerPoint slides. Number One: It's not about you. Number Two: Your plan is not the world's. Number Three: The mind can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Time didn't age you; memory did.

She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost.

If your mind were only a slightly greener thing, we'd drown you in meaning.

chorus of living wood sings to the woman: If your mind were only a slightly greener thing, we'd drown you in meaning.

The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels.

But what did psychological mean anymore, except a process that did not yet have a known neurobiological substrate?

She quoted from The Country of Surprise: "Even baseline normality has about it something hallucinatory.