Quotes About Mind

I realised that all the things which were the source and object of my anxiety held nothing of good or evil in themselves save in so far as the mind was influenced by them,

each will form universal images according to the conditioning of his body.

Such things as are good simply because they have been commanded or instituted, or as being symbols of something good, are mere shadows which cannot be reckoned among actions that are the offspring, as it were, or fruit of a sound mind and of intellect.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

Emotion, which is called a passivity of the soul, is a confused idea, whereby the mind affirms concerning its body, or any part thereof, a force for existence (existendi vis) greater or less than before, and by the presence of which the mind is determined to think of one thing rather than another.

Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.

The body itself, simply from the laws of its own nature, can do many things which its mind wonders at … it is in the mind's power alone both to speak and to be silent and to do many other things which they therefore believe depend on the mind's decision … if, on the other hand, the body is inactive, the mind is at the same time incapable of thinking

The intellectual love of the mind towards God is that very love of God whereby God loves himself

We there showed that the idea of body and body, that is, mind and body (II. xiii.), are one and the same individual conceived now under the attribute of thought, now under the attribute of extension; wherefore the idea of the mind and the mind itself are one and the same thing, which is conceived under one and the same attribute, namely, thought.

Baruch Spinoza

I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human actions and appetites just as if it were a Question of lines, planes, and bodies.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No mater what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that it has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

Angele had her reservations but kept her own counsel.

I know the tendency of the human mind is to do anything rather than think. But mental labour is not thought, and those who have with labour acquired the habit of application, often find it much easier to get up a formula than to master a principle.

The Joker Here we are, the perfect pair... Beauty and the Beast. Mind you, if anybody calls you beast, I'll rip their lungs out.

I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh, or to move their mind with tickling levity, and affect them as stage-players use to do, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God.

Worrying about the future is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life will always be things that never crossed your worried mind.

A joyful mind will never live in isolation.

I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.

Rain, I don't mind Shine, the weather's fine

He blew his mind out in a car He didn't notice that the lights had changed A crowd of people stood and stared They'd seen his face before Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords