Quotes About Mind

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher, nor suffer others to call you so. Say rather: He is in error; for my desires, my impulses are unaltered. I give in my adhesion to what I did before; nor has my mode of dealing with the things of sense undergone any change.

Epictetus] believes that God gave man the means to fulfill all his obligations; that these means are within his power, that happiness is attained through what we are capable of, this being the reason God gave them to us. Our mind cannot be forced to believe what is false, nor our will compelled to love something that makes it unhappy. These two powers are therefore free, and it is through them that we can become perfect.

But they have produced such wonderful fruit in a human mind, as part of their plan to bestow on humanity the true secret of happiness.

The intellectual cannot operate at room temperature.

A man is likely to mind his own business, when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his ownmeaningless affairs and by minding other people's business.

Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. This

Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.

Our perception of the world is a fantasy that coincides with reality. (Frith 2007)

Perhaps the need to believe in demons is, in itself, the last resort of a mind desperate to project its evils outward.

Cu cât corpul devine mai greu, cu atât mintea este mai uÈ™oar?.

PoÈ›i fi st?pân pe ceea ce gândeÈ™ti, dar niciodat? pe ceea ce simÈ›i.

Je ne me réveille jamais entier ; des parts de moi restent engluées dans le sommeil.

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Only dogmatic thinking, the result of the laziness of mind and heart, tries to construct simplistic schemes of the either-or type that block any real understanding.

her insomnia likely had roots in her fear of losing control.

The mind has the ability to influence the body on a subconscious level.

It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.

Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.

To men a man is but a mind. Who caresWhat face he carries or what form he wears?But woman's body is the woman. OStay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum

Insanity makes the rivers flow.

A philosopher's mind is calm like the stillness of a river but goes deep like the depth of the sea

A contented mind is a continual feast.