Quotes About Mind

A consciência é uma voz interior que nos adverte de que alguém pode estar olhando

Sometimes, when it is cloudy, I can sleep.

The most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

Where does madness leave off and reality begin?

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which we are made

For the purpose of securing epithets at once accurate and felicitous, the young author should familiarize himself thoroughly with the general aspect and phenomena of Nature, as well as with the ideas and associations which these things produce in the human mind.

It was a godless sound; one of those low-keyed, insidious outrages of Nature which are not meant to be. To call it a dull wail, a doom-dragged whine, or a hopeless howl of chorused anguish and stricken flesh without mind would be to miss its most quintessential loathsomeness and soul-sickening overtones.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

In such surroundings the mind loses its perspective; time and space become trivial and unreal, and echoes of a forgotten prehistoric past beat insistently upon the enthralled consciousness.

There is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which we are made conscious of them; but the prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of supersight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism.

These are the nameless larvae of the Other Gods, and like them are blind and without mind, and possessed of singular hungers and thirsts.

All he seeks from life is not to think. For some reason thought is very horrible to him, and anything which stirs the imagination he flees as a plague.

It was the end, for whatever remains to me of life on the surface of this earth, of every vestige of mental peace and confidence in the integrity of Nature and of the human mind.

The place is not good for the imagination, and does not bring restful dreams at night.

T he most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

His frightened horse had gone home, but his frightened wits never quite did that.

It was perhaps an effect of such surroundings that my mind early acquired a shade of melancholy.

Nothing has been distorted or concealed, and if anything remains vague, it is only because of the dark cloud which has come over my mind—that cloud and the nebulous nature of the horrors which brought it upon me.

Zaman?n, uzam?n ve doÄŸal yasalar?n insan? deli eden, y?prat?c? s?n?rlamalar?n? silkip atmak -engin uzakl?klarla baÄŸlant? kurmak- sonsuzluÄŸun ve hudutsuzluÄŸun en esrarl?, en derin s?rlar?na yaklaÅŸmak; böyle bir ÅŸey, kuÅŸku yok ki, insan?n hayat?n?, ruhunu ve ak?l saÄŸl???n? tehlikeye atmaya deÄŸerdi!

Is it possible that even my latest fear is sheer delusion?

A coisa mais misericordiosa do mundo é, segundo penso, a incapacidade da mente humana em correlacionar tudo o que sabe. Vivemos em uma plácida ilha de ignorância em meio a mares negros de infinitude, e não fomos feitos para ir longe.

I did not shriek, but all the fiendish ghouls that ride the night-wind shrieked for me as in that same second there crashed down upon my mind a single and fleeting avalanche of soul-annihilating memory.

His notes to the outside world offered a window on an active, sympathetic, eclectic mind.

Psychological recovery is as important as physiological recovery.