Quotes About Mind

Somewhere, out in the infinite distance, lay the spring, at least in God's mind, like babies that are not yet conceived in the mother's womb. (from The Fish can Sing)

When we succeed in surviving strong emotions, we experience a more solid peace of mind.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a world that honors the servant, but has forgotten the gift. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

The only possible metaphor one may conceive of for the life of the mind is the sensation of being alive. Without the breath of life, the human body is a corpse; without thinking, the human mind is dead.

every thought that deviates from the officially prescribed and permanently changing line is already suspect, no matter in which field of human activity it occurs. Simply because of their capacity to think, human beings are suspects by definition, and this suspicion cannot be diverted by exemplary behavior, for the human capacity to think is also a capacity to change one's mind.

Într-o lume de neînÈ›eles, mereu schimb?toare, masele atinseser? punctul în care puteau crede, în acelaÈ™i timp, orice sau nimic, când ele gândeau c? totul este posibil È™i c? nimic nu e adev?rat. Amestecul era destul de ciudat, întru-cât demonstra sfârÈ™itul iluziei c? naivitatea era o sl?biciune a spiritelor primitive neb?nuitoare, iar cinismul reprezenta viciul unor minÈ›i superioare È™i rafinate.

Augustine asks, how do I remember the "happy life"? He answers: Is it like the way we remember joy? Perhaps so, for even when I am sad, I remember joy, just as when I am miserable, I remember the happy life. But I never saw, or heard, or smelled, or tasted joy with a bodily sense. I experienced it in my mind when I rejoiced and knowledge of it has clung to my memory.

The gap between past and future: the nunc stans...timeless region, an eternal presence in complete quiet, lying beyond human clocks and calendars altogether, the quiet of the Now in the time-pressed, time-tossed existence of man ... this small non-time space is the very heart of time. ...it is the very home, the only home, of Mind, Soul and Art; the only point where past and future are gathered together and the pattern and the meaning of the whole become clear.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line with the laws of logical reasoning are no refutation of these but the sign of a muddled mind (or would one accept someone's observational report that he had seen a bird that was red and non-red all over at the same time as a refutation of the law of contradiction rather than the pronouncement of an idiot?).

It was all so damn fragile, that was the thing. Obvious, for sure,but for the most part we block - we refuse to think about how easily our lives could be torn asunder, because when we recognize it, we lose our minds. The ones who are fearful all the time, who need to medicate to function? It is because they understand the reality, how thin the line is. It isn't that they can't accept the truth - its that they can't block it.

I'd rather read than relax. I'd rather keep the mind engaged.

Mental illnesses are so strange. A physical problem we can understand. But when the mind works irrationally, well, by its very definition, the rational mind cannot truly relate.

Survival is the thing. The mind will twist to survive. Anything can become normal.

There are some places the mind should not go; it gets steered there anyway.

There were some night paths the mind was better off not traversing;

As Myron dashed back and forth in the wave of basketball action, a thought sneaked in through the back door of his brain. The thought stayed on the fringes, hiding behind a couch, popping into view every once in a while before ducking back down again. You can do this, the thought taunted. You can play with them. Myron

Mental illnesses are so strange. A physical problem we can understand. But when the mind works irrationally, well, by its very definition, the rational mind cannot truly relate. We can pity. But we cannot fully grasp.

There's this song I love," Lex said. "The lyric says, 'Your heart is like a parachute.' Do you know why?" "I think the line is about a mind being like a parachute—it only functions when it's open." "No, I know that line. This one is a better, 'Your heart is like a parachute—it only opens when you fall.' " He smiled. "Good, right?" "I guess." "We

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

What a lot of people don't realise about me is that I have no idea what's going on in the media. I don't pay any attention to it, as I consider it mind pollution. The last time I touched a computer was in 2001, and my phone is too old to use the Internet. I just don't enter into it at all on any level.