Quotes About Mind

One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.

As long as I could keep improving my mind, I figured, I was doing okay.

The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.

I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea . That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken.

One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.

Human consciousness at present is a sort of battlefield. And you know what Tolstoy tells us about battles in War and Peace. Nobody really knows what is going on during a battle...

It hardly does much good to have a complex mind without actually being a philosopher.

Somewhere in every intellectual is a dumb prick.

Disease is a speech of the psyche. ...the psyche is a polyglot, for if it converts fear into symptoms it also converts hope.

Well, you are a privileged character. You're the only man living whose mother lost her mind and died.

yourself." "Yes," I agreed. "It has a specific kind of satisfaction, the bad of it guarantees it as real experience. This is what we go through, and it's what existence is like. The brain is a mirror and reflects the world.

To God he jotted several lines. How my mind has struggled to make coherent sense. I have not been too good at it. But have desired to do your unknowable will, taking it, and you, without symbols. Everything of intensest significance. Especially if divested of me.

And I hold with Spinoza (I hope he won't mind) that to demand what is impossible for any human being, to exercise power where it can't be exercised, is tyranny.

CERTAIN oddities about Israel: Because people think so hard here, and so much, and because of the length and depth of their history, this sliver of a country sometimes seems quite large. Some dimension of mind seems to extend into space.

I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.

Genuine tranquility of the heart and perfect peace of mind, the highest blessings on earth after health, are to be found only in solitude and, as a permanent disposition, only in the deepest seclusion.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: En general, las nueve décimas partes de nuestra felicidad se fundamentan en la salud (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Goals are for losers. Your mind isn't magic. It's a moist computer you can program. The most important metric to track is your personal energy. Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. Happiness is health plus freedom. Luck can be managed, sort of. Conquer shyness by being a huge phony (in a good way). Fitness is the lever that moves the world. Simplicity transforms ordinary into amazing.

the past exists only in your mind," he said. "Likewise, the future exists only in your mind because it has not happened.

Your brain can only process a tiny portion of your environment, It risks being overwhelmed by the volume of information that bombards you every waking moment. Your brain compensates by filtering out the 99.9 percent of your environment that doesn't matter to you.

We humans like to think we are creatures of reason. We aren't. The reality is that we make our decisions first and rationalize them later....Your illusion of being a rational person is supported by the fact that sometimes you do act rationally.

On all the important stuff, we are emotional creatures who make decisions first and rationalize them after the fact.

My definition of happiness is that it's a feeling you get when your body chemistry is producing pleasant sensations in your mind.