Quotes About Mind

To place the alleviation of unnecessary pain and suffering at the pinnacle of your hierarchy of value is to work to bring about the Kingdom of God on Earth. That's a state, and a state of mind, at the same time.

If you take the low road than that wins and it gets a little stronger because everything that wins neurologically gets a little stronger.

A long period of unfreedom—adherence to a singular interpretive structure—is necessary for the development of a free mind.

The 'natural,' pre-experimental, or mythical mind is in fact primarily concerned with meaning - which is essentially implication for action - and not with 'objective' nature.

Hemos perdido el universo mítico de la mente preexperimental, o al menos hemos dejado de propiciar su desarrollo. Esa pérdida ha dejado nuestro creciente poder tecnológico más peligrosamente a la merced de nuestros sistemas de valoración, que todavía son inconscientes.

Aprende del pasado o revivirás sus horrores en tu imaginación durante toda la eternidad.

When we first began to perceive the unknown, chaotic, non-animal world, we used categories that had originally evolved to represent the pre-human animal social world. Our minds are far older than mere humanity.

Un largo periodo de falta de libertad —de adhesión a una estructura interpretativa particular— es necesario para que se desarrolle una mente libre.

En otras palabras, nuestras mentes son mucho más antiguas que la humanidad. Nuestras categorías son mucho más antiguas que nuestra especie. Nuestra categoría más básica, tan antigua en cierto modo como el propio acto sexual, es la del sexo, masculino y femenino.

The worst of all possible snakes is psychological, spiritual, personal, internal.

Reason is something alive. It lives in all of us. It's older than any of us. It's best understood as a personality, not a faculty.

Without the intermediation of the social world, it would be impossible for us to organize our minds, and we would simply be overwhelmed by the world.

people depend on constant communication with others to keep their minds organized. We all need to think to keep things straight, but we mostly think by talking.

Talking yourself into irrelevance is not a profound critique of Being. It's a cheap trick of the rational mind.

It takes a village to organize a mind.

Nuestras mentes son mucho más antiguas que la humanidad.

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.152 … Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.153

Carl Jung hypothesized that the European mind found itself motivated to develop the cognitive technologies of science—to investigate the material world—after implicitly concluding that Christianity, with its laser-like emphasis on spiritual salvation, had failed to sufficiently address the problem of suffering in the here-and-now.

One of these is chaos. Another is order. The third (as there are three) is the process that mediates between the two, which appears identical to what modern people call consciousness.

My waking life probably gave my subconscious an inferiority complex.

But it didn't really happen in the space of a footstep, Poincare explains. That moment of inspiration is the product of weeks of work, both conscious and unconscious, which somehow prepare the mind to make the necessary connection of ideas. Sitting around waiting for inspiration leads to failure, no matter how much of a whiz kid you are.

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to be assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement." —BERTRAND RUSSELL, "The Study of Mathematics" (1902)

And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.

It is amazing how much your brain races when you literally have nothing to do.