Quotes About Mind

Every science comes with its own pseudo-science, a bizarre distortion that comes from a certain kind of mind: astronomy has its caricaturist in astrology, chemistry used to have alchemy.

As feminist scholar Carol Christ points out, "Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected, they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.

Fue Oha el que respiró ruidosamente. Aunque no quería, Regina se echó a reír, ya que él no sabía nada de la magia de convertir las preocupaciones en sonidos que no revelaban nada de las cosas que sólo la propia cabeza debía saber.

The human mind ... operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain.

The parity principles show how our tools, especially well-designed tools, can profoundly enhance our capabilities to understand. If we define the mind as the brain, we must also admit to its limitations. There is much we cannot remember or learn or analyze or make sense of, until we extend the mind outward. This is why we make tools and technologies, not for their own sake, but to overcome the inherent limitations of our innate cognitive capabilities. This is the work of design.

This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily death. It is the willingness to embrace the fundamental bewilderment of a finite, fallible creature as the basis for leading a life that no longer clings to the superficial consolations of certainty.

The collapsing of an empire. This changing word moves inexorably on. Thoughts bubble and the stiller the mind the more palpable the dazzling torrent of life becomes.

We are all creatures of logic, at root. Of little switches turning on and off in our heads, metaphorically speaking.

Even the deep inner senses: even proprioception

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't

I'm just thinking too fast-- much too fast.

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't.

And I could hear all these songs on the radio, but the radio wasn't on.

The trance happens when you don't focus on anything.

I think it. I say it. You hear it. Sometimes, I don't even think it, I just say it.

Writing bridges conscious and subconscious mind. It is a psycho-neuromuscular activity and literally imprints the brain.

The lieutenant, returning from a tour after a bandage, produced from a hidden receptacle of his mind new and portentous oaths suited to the emergency. Strings of expletives he swung lashlike over the backs of his men, and it was evident that his previous efforts had in nowise impaired his resources.

He was submitting, submitting because of his fathers, bending his mind in a most perfect slavery to this conflagration.

Although both men were full of resolve, the defender could not keep his doubts out of his mind, while the attacker refused to entertain any doubts. (Rommel vs. Eisenhower)

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame, and self-loathing - they are not all bad. Those devils have also been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter, and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

If your mind and spirit are directed to your task, everything else will follow. Relax." "But focus," said Hermes. "Relaxation without focus leads to failure." "Focus without relaxation leads to failure just as surely," said Athena. "So concentrate . . ." said Perseus. "Exactly." ". . . but calmly?" "Concentrate calmly. You have it.

There is such a thing as the power of suggestion, however. One human mind is capable of being hypnotised or persuaded by another. We have faith, we have Hitler, we have advertising.

In other words, what you believe—that is, the descriptions of the world around you that you received in childhood—act much like software; they program what is perceivable by your conscious mind.