Quotes About Mind

All unhappiness enters through the window of observation and the door of thought.

Nunca tive outra preocupação verdadeira senão a minha vida interior.

The love of absurdity and paradox is the animal happiness* of the sad. Just as the normal man talks nonsense and slaps others on the back out of zest and vitality, so those incapable of joy and enthusiasm do somersaults in their minds and perform, in their own cold way, the warm gestures of life. 297.

I always thought of metaphysics as a prolonged form of latent madness.

It's by the door of thought and the window of observation that suffering comes into one's house.

Perhaps the novel is a more perfect life and reality, which God creates through us. Perhaps we live only to create it. It seems that civilization exists only to produce art and literature; words are what speak for it and remain. How do we know that these extra-human figures aren't truly real? It tortures my mind to think this might be the case

Since life is essentially a mental state and everything that we do or think is only as valuable as we think it is, it depends on us for any value it may have.

To realize I don't remember myself means that I've woken up.

Everything, for us, is in our concept of the world. To modify our concept of the world is to modify the world for us, or simply to modify the world, since it will never be, for us, anything but what it is for us.

To live is to crochet according to a pattern we were given. But while doing it the mind is at liberty, and all enchanted princes can stroll in their parks between one and another plunge of the hooked ivory needle. Needlework of things … Intervals … Nothing …

We may be guided by an illusion, but one thing is sure, it is not our consciousness that guides us.

soy del tamaño de lo que veo y no del tamaño de mi estatura»

To think is to destroy.

As always, what mattered was the maintenance of the twin-track Irish mind. Reality could continue on its own sweet way, so long as it was not reflected in what the state said about itself. The façade was much more important than the building.

A grain of knowledge with the dawning of the day is a breakfast of the mind.

Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.

Dermot Trellis'in akli melekeleri geldiÄŸinde aral?klarla teker teker geldiler, öyle hep birden deÄŸil. Hepsi kendi ?st?raplar?yla geldiler ve sanki her an kalk?p gideceklermiÅŸ gibi akl?n s?n?r?nda endiÅŸeyle durdular.

The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity...

The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.

Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven.

I have one of those food-chopper brains that nothing comes out of the way it went in.

She could not make up her mind what would be inside his head and what out. She thought of her own head as a switchbox where she controlled from; but with him, she could only imagine the outside in, the whole black world in his head and his head bigger than the world, his head big enough to include the sky and planets and whatever was or had been or would be.

To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape cam from the hand of Providence.

Remember what you won't get if you don't mind, her grandfather remarked.