Quotes About Mind

He was just thinking aloud, ruling out possibilities by releasing them into the air, like canaries in the coal mine of his mind.

The mind is a theater. It cannot be allowed to go dark. It must be maintained.

She was a round, curvy woman who, for Parker, brought to mind a figure assembled from a selection of soft fruits. Aside

It's odd, but people are capable of forgetting quite extraordinary occurrences very quickly if it makes them happier to do so

It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the Mind descries. We see nothing till we truly understand it.

Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are few limitations to the happiness we may enjoy.

Anselm conceives of God as something than which nothing greater or more perfect can be conceived. Since this idea arises in our minds it certainly has an intellectual existence. But does it have an existence outside of our minds? Anselm argued that it must, for otherwise we fall into a contradiction. For we could imagine something greater than that which nothing greater can be conceived; that is the mental conception we have together, plus the added attribute of real existence.

The old debate between mind and matter is fast becoming as antiquated as a debate about the relative merits of various sorts of fountain pens. "Matter" is going out of style. The electron is turning out to be the Cartesian "pineal gland" which mediates in the obsolete opposition of mind and matter as the lines between these two antagonists in the ancient dualism are blurred by the electronic revolution.

Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures, no reliance on words and letters, a direct pointing to the human mind, the realization of Buddhahood.

Chanting and invoking are worlds apart. Chanting is done with the mouth; invoking is done with the mind. And because invoking comes from the mind, it is called a door to awareness. Chanting is centered in the mouth and appears as sound. If you cling to appearances while searching for meaning, you won't find a thing.

We occasionally hear of "righteous anger." We mean anger that is justified by circumstances. But, in a sense, all anger is righteous. That is, all anger justifies itself in the mind of the person who feels the anger. In another sense, there is no such thing as righteous anger. For no anger can really justify itself.

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,

With Nectar in your Mind instead of Thinking, you have Understanding band Wisdom

With Nectar in your Mind instead of Thinking, you have Understanding and Wisdom

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.

Mind as a concrete thing is precisely the power to understand things in terms of the use made of them; a socialized mind is the power to understand them in terms of the use to which they are turned in joint or shared situations. And mind in this sense is the method of social control.

Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.

Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on "general principles.

We only think when confronted with a problem.

Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind.

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

The idea of the painter and the sculptor is undoubtedly that perfect and excellent example of the mind, by imitation of which imagined form all things are represented which fall under human sight.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.