Quotes About Mind

Our language and our minds are too limited to deal with anything but a fixed reality, regardless of whether such a thing exists. The best we can do is to update our delusions to fit the times. We live in an increasingly rational, science-based society. The religious metaphors of the past are no longer comforting. Science is whittling at them from every side. Humanity needs a metaphor that allows God and science to coexist, at least in our minds, for the next thousand years.

The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to truth. Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not exempt from self-delusion.

You've heard the old saying that knowledge is power. But knowledge of psychology is the purest form of that power. No matter what you're doing or how well you're doing it, you can benefit from a deeper understanding of how the mind interprets its world using only the clues that somehow find a way into your brain through the holes in your skull. When

The grand illusion of life is that our minds have the capacity to understand reality. But human minds didn't evolve to understand reality. We didn't need that capability. A clear view of reality wasn't necessary for our survival. Evolution cares only that you survive long enough to procreate. And that's a low bar. The result is that each of us is, in effect, living in our own little movie that our brain has cooked up for us to explain our experiences.

The thoughts you allow into your head are the code that programs your mind and body.

The things that you think about the most will irrationally rise in importance in your mind.

It was thrilling, wasn't it? [...] That moment, that perfect moment you let go of your rigid concepts of what was possible. When there was nothing left to do but step beyond anything you'd learned before...when you stopped being a poor mimic and became a master of the mind. How did that feel? Empowering.

The physical beauty…also cleared her mind of worries. Every day seemed to change the mountain, the sky, and the surrounding valleys, making them spectacular in a completely new way. Nature, at least, didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

Sometimes the thoughts in my head get so bored they go out for a stroll through my mouth. This is rarely a good thing.

MEPHISTO. Good fortune's closely linked to merit, A thought that never enters foolish minds; The Philosopher's Stone's there in their hands? The Philosopher's searching everywhere for it.

In the Beginning was the Mind'.

Mind and Nature – don't speak to Christians so. That's why men burn atheists, below, Such speech is dangerous, all right, Nature is sin, and Mind's the devil,

Ey ulu tanr?m! Önce ak?l sahibi olup sonra onu kaybetmedikçe mesut olmamak insanlar?n al?n yaz?s? m??

Is it Mind that works and creates what's ours?

Actuar es fácil, pensar es difícil; actuar según se piensa es aún más difícil

En inan?lmaz ?eylere bile inanmaya programlanm???z ve bunlar haf?zam?za bir kez kaz?nd? m?, onlar? silmeye çal??an?n vay haline

and because it is characteristic of our mind to project confusion and darkness where we have nothing but uncertainty.

please practice moderation. Your mind, your knowledge, your talents offer you resources to happiness! Be a man, and conquer this tragic devotion from a creature who can do nothing but pity you.

It is the greatest and most genuine of pleasures to observe a great mind in sympathy with our own.

un cerebro que puede pensar bien, creará con el tiempo un pensador.

La vida humana se reduce a un sueño; esto es lo que muchos han pensado, y semejante idea no deja de perseguirme.

Danger takes from a man all power of thought

If the power of the mind were not in matter, how could matter disturb the mind.

A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.