Quotes About Mind

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.

The human mind is so complex that many different theories can be constructed, all of which seem to be logical, coherent, and explain major facts of observation, yet at the same time are mutually incompatible or actually contradict each other.

The fact that so many different cultures throughout human history have found shamanic techniques useful and relevant suggests that the holotropic states engage what the anthropologists call the "primal mind," a basic and primordial aspect of the human psyche that transcends race, gender, culture, and historical period.

One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them.

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

Cómo ejercitar la memoria para que aprenda a olvidar?

Denial may be neither a matter of telling the truth nor intentionally telling a lie. There seem to be states of mind, or even whole cultures, in which we know and don't know at the same time.

John Locke, rejecting a central thesis of Cartesian philosophy, argued that the mind was a tabula rasa, an empty vessel devoid of any innate ideas. As a result, it is passive in the knowing process. It simply receives "impressions" from the external world through the senses and then formulates ideas from the impressions it has gathered.

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.

He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will" (Romans 8:27).

There were two books that really had a significant impact on me on the issue of drugs: One was Andrew Weil's book, The Natural Mind. The

Wisdom and knowledge can best be understood together. Knowledge is learning, the power of the mind to understand and describe the universe. Wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge and how not to apply it. Knowledge is knowing what to say; wisdom is knowing whether or not to say it. Knowledge gives answers; wisdom asks questions. Knowledge can be taught, wisdom grows from experience.

Language shapes consciousness, And the use of language to shape consciousness Is an important branch of magic.

Psychology of small things rules.

Der Mensch denkt nicht vergeblich. Kein Gedanke, auch nicht der wunderlichste, vergeht fruchtlos.

Yet I am still somewhat hampered. I cannot free myself from that strong, commanding voice which speaks to me, or from that mysterious power which pushes aside objects, contemptuous of their size; I am still wearied by endless monotonous roads that led nowhere. That is why I am not a perfect spirit, only an 'insane person', someone who arouses in normal people pity, contempt or fear. But I do not complain. Even like this, I am better off than those of healthy mind.

Depression is the price we pay for our imagination and intelligence.

They did nothing—other than subjecting us to complete nothingness. For, as is well known, nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

Forget it all, I told myself, escape into your mind and your work, into the place where you are only your living, breathing self, not a citizen of any state, not a stake in that infernal game, the place where only what reason you have can still work to some reasonable effect in a world gone mad.

Plus un esprit se limite, plus il touche par ailleurs à l'infini.

Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.

Conocía desde luego, por propia experiencia, el misterioso poder de atracción del «juego de reyes», de ese juego entre los juegos, el único entre los ideados por el hombre que escapa soberanamente a cualquier tiranía del azar, y otorga los laureles de la victoria exclusivamente al espíritu o, mejor aún, a una forma muy característica de agudeza mental.