Quotes About Mind

Logiikka pitää näin ymmärtää puhtaan järjen järjestelmänä, puhtaan ajatuksen valtakuntana. Tämä valtakunta on totuus sinänsä ja itselleen, ilman verhoa. Asia voidaan siksi ilmaista niin, että tämä sisältö on Jumalan esitystä sellaisena kuin hän on ikuisessa olemuksessaan ennen luonnon ja äärellisen hengen luomista.

The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind . . . From the very first he set before the consciousness things which it could not tolerate.

The only things we perceive are our perceptions.

I know what I mean by the term I and myself; and I know this immediately, or intuitively, though I do not perceive it as I perceive a triangle, a colour, or a sound.

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

Esse est percipi.

THE SECOND DIALOGUE

Few men think; yet all have opinions

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

All intellectual labor is inherently humorous

My experience is that one's pleasures don't bear thinking about.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the eye,–however it may come, these minds will give it a habitation; it is something to assert strongly and bravely, something to fill up the void of spontaneous ideas, something to impose on others with the authority of conscious right; it is at once a staff and a baton.

True, he had dreamy visions of possibilities: there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequence of his passions - does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.

Our good depends on the quality and breadth of our emotions.