Quotes About Mind

This Platonized Christian God also made Plato's Forms seem more real, as the eternal patterns existing in the mind of God out of which He built heaven, earth, and the rest of His creation.

As David Hume explained, "The mind of man is subject to certain unaccountable terrors and apprehensions, proceeding from the unhappy situation of private or public affairs, from ill health, from a gloomy and melancholy disposition. In such a state of mind, where real objects of terror are wanting, the soul … finds imaginary ones, to whose power and malevolence it sets no limits.

Ik weet niets van alchemie, maar ik zeg dit: zij zijn op de verkeerde weg. Het tastbare laat zich alleen door het ontastbare vormen. De werkelijkheid laat zich door niets veranderen dan door de geest. Om de dingen anders te maken hoef je ze niet aan te raken, je moet ze alleen anders zien.

We cannot unthink unless we are insane.

Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth.

The fancy that sensations are symbols and not realities hovered in his mind, and led him to speculate as to whether they could not actually be transmuted one into another.

Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind. I was an imbecile—an idiot.

Otuz y?ld?r," diye devam etti, "gerçeklerle boÄŸuÅŸuyorum; ÅŸimdi düÅŸ zaman?.

I knew all the time that it was all nonsense, but I couldn't understand in the least what it meant, or who was pulling the wires of rumour, or their purpose in so pulling. I began to wonder whether the pressure and anxiety and suspense of a terrible war had unhinged the public mind, so that it was ready to believe any fable, to debate the reasons for happenings which had never happened.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

Je finis par trouver sacré le désordre de mon esprit.

I am not a prisoner of my reason. - Bad Blood

I looked on the disorder of my mind as sacred. Disaster was my God.

Vi que todos los seres tienen una fatalidad de dicha: la acción no es la vida, sino una forma de malgastar una fuerza, un enervamiento. La moral es la debilidad del cerebro.

Am sfârÅŸit prin a socoti sacr? dezordinea minÅ£ii mele.Eram trândav,prad? unei febre ap?s?toare:pizmuiam fericirea dobitoacelor,pizmuiam ÅŸi omizile,care întruchipeaz? inocenÅ£a limburilor,la fel ÅŸi cârtiÅ£ele,ÅŸi somnul virginit??ii!

El cerebro del hombre está atiborrado de trapos.

At last, I began to consider my mind's disorder a sacred thing.

It is wrong to say: I think. One should say: I am thought.

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearerÂ's mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.