Quotes About Mind

Her plea was the music that the soul could hear at sunrise, if the mind was still enough to hear it.

I am a Mistress to others; you are the Master of me. Of my heart, mind and soul.

The body is entirely neutral, my lady. It just likes sex. It's the mind that fucks up our compass.

An abundance of pictorial fancy, after all, furnished the simple mind quite as much matter for deviating from pure doctrine as any personal interpretation of Holy Scripture.

Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

Mit einem Worte: durch die Wissenschaftslehre kommt der Geist des Menschen zu sich selbst, und ruht von nun an auf sich selbst, ohne fremde Hülfe, und wird seiner selbst durchaus mächtig, wie der Tänzer seiner Füße, oder der Fechter seiner Hände.

goes back to the design of the brain…. It's designed to pay attention to the stuff that matters to you.

The symptoms are a messenger of a deeper problem. Let's get to the deeper problem.

Take care what technologies you use, because your consciousness will, over time, come to be shaped like those technologies.

started to think again about a book I had read ten years before: The Shallows by Nicholas Carr—a landmark work that really alerted people to a crucial aspect of the growing attention crisis.

James thinks we are all living through something like a denial-of-service attack on our minds. "We're that server, and there's all these things trying to grab our attention by throwing information at us…. It undermines our capacity for responding to anything. It leaves us in a state of either distraction, or paralysis.

Second, when your mind wanders, it starts to make new connections between things—which often produces solutions to your problems.

Irving didn't want this to be true—it contradicted his own published work—but he told me, "One thing I do pride myself on is looking at the data, and allowing my mind to be changed when the data's different than I expected.

When we sleep, our minds start to identify connections and patterns from what we've experienced during the day. This is one of the key sources of our creativity—it's why narcoleptic people, who sleep a lot, are significantly more creative.

Some scientists in the field believe that dreaming somehow helps you to adapt emotionally to waking events.

brain moment to moment, task to task—[and] that comes with a cost.

La soledad en este paraíso terrenal es un bálsamo genial para mi mente,

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Here too it's masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I'd gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

So much simplicity with so much understanding — so mild, and yet so resolute — a mind so placid, and a life so active.

What you feed in yourself that grows.