Quotes About Mind

Racism claims that the content of a man's mind (not his cognitive apparatus, but its content) is inherited; that a man's convictions, values and character are determined before he is born, by physical factors beyond his control.

Greatness is achieved by the productive effort of a man's mind in the pursuit of clearly defined, rational goals. But a delusion of grandeur can be served only by the switching, undefinable chimera of a public monument—which is presented as a munificent gift to the victims whose forced labor or extorted money had paid for it—which is dedicated to the service of all and none, owned by all and none, gaped at by all and enjoyed by none.

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.

Just as laymen leave medicine to doctors and electronics to engineers, so people who are not qualified to think should leave all thinking to the experts and have faith in the experts' higher authority. Only experts are able to understand the discoveries of modern science, which have proved that thought is an illusion and that the mind is a myth.

Every mystic had always longed for slaves, to protect him from the material reality he dreaded. But you, you grotesque little atavists, stare blindly at the skyscrapers and smokestacks around you and dream of enslaving the material providers who are scientists, inventors, industrialists. When you clamor for public ownership of the means of production, you are clamoring for public ownership of the mind. I have taught my strikers that the answer you deserve is only: 'Try and get it.

dejad al caníbal que gruñe que la libertad de la mente humana fue necesaria para crear una civilización industrial, pero no para mantenerla...

I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind—and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.

wondering how one went about forcing one's mind into blankness, particularly after a lifetime lived on the axiom that the constant, clearest, most ruthless function of his rational faculty was his foremost duty.

A free mind and a free economy are corollaries. One can't exist without the other. The dollar sign, as the symbol of the currency of a free country, is the symbol of the free mind.

Lo que llamáis vuestra alma o espíritu es vuestra conciencia y lo que llamáis libre voluntad es la voluntad de vuestra mente para pensar o no, la única que poseéis, vuestra única libertad, la opción que controla todas las opciones realizadas por vosotros y determina vuestra vida y vuestro carácter.

Su propósito reside en privaros de todo concepto de que dependa la mente humana, su vida y su cultura: el concepto de una realidad objetiva. Identificad el desarrollo de una conciencia humana y conoceréis el propósito de su credo.

Thought is a primitive superstition. Reason is an irrational idea.

Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority.

The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. The ego you seek, that essential 'you' which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you've impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your 'feeling.

Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted. "If

Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal with them. If we want to accomplish anything, we have to deceive them into letting us accomplish it. Or force them. They

He wanted to think that he was paralyzed. He knew that he was violently alive, that he was forcing the stupor into his muscles and into his mind, because he wished to escape the responsibility of consciousness.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not." stated by John Galt in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

Why had she always felt that joyous sense of confidence when looking at machines?—she thought. In these giant shapes, two aspects pertaining to the inhuman were radiantly absent: the causeless and the purposeless. Every part of the motors was an embodied answer to "Why?" and "What for?"—like the steps of a life-course chosen by the sort of mind she worshipped. The motors were a moral code cast in steel.

Un inventor es un hombre que pregunta ¿por qué? al universo y no permite que nada se interponga entre la respuesta y su mente.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not." stated by John Galt

aquellos a quienes llamáis materialistas y espiritualistas son sólo dos mitades del mismo ser humano disecado, que trata siempre de encontrar la plenitud, pero buscándola al alternar entre la destrucción de la carne y la destrucción del alma y viceversa; de que corren desde vuestros colegios a las prisiones de esclavos de Europa y de éstas al colapso del fangal místico de la India, sin buscar refugio alguno contra la realidad, ni forma de escapar a la mente.

Quienes poseen la facultad del pensamiento, no trabajarán por obligación, y si lo hacen no producirán mucho más que el precio del látigo necesario para mantenerles en la esclavitud.

El hombre recibe un cuerpo, pero no el sustento para el mismo. Se le otorga una mente, pero no el contenido de la misma. Para vivir ha de actuar, pero antes de poder hacerlo debe saber la naturaleza y el proposito de su acción. No puede conseguir alimento sin conocimiento del mismo ni del modo de obtenerlo.