Quotes About Mind

I believe there's more than this - that maybe, when we die, our brains conjure up some kind of shutdown experience, and that's what people try to sum up as the afterlife.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash.

If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance; yes, and avoided uncertain extremes of the scale.

And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived.

For man without myth is Othello with Desdemona gone: chaos descends, faith vanishes and superstitions prowl in the mind.

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

A man is what he thinks about all day long

God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.