Quotes About Mind

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

Boredom comes from a boring mind.

Personal purifying is the beginning of everything," MacKaye said. "Once you get your own shit together, once you get your own mind together, it makes life for you and the people around you so much more agreeable and understandable as opposed to constant fucking problems.

You could almost see the idea elbowing its way around the inside of his mind, like Athena in the cranium of Zeus.

Combing her thoughts, yanking them into a pigtail.

A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

Days go by, and I don't remember not to forget..

On balance, most of the time, in the ordinary course of life, it was probably best to say what was in your heart, to share what was on your mind, to tell the people you loved that you loved them, to ask those you had harmed to forgive you and to confront those who had hurt you with the truth about the damage they had done. When it came to things that needed to be said, speech was always preferable to silence, but it was of no use at all in the presence of the unspeakable.

Fear, though always unspoken, nevertheless stripped men of their carefully orchestrated poses. The adrenaline roars and the throat gurgles with fear like a backed-up drain. Sheer desire for survival takes over. It sharpens the mind, pares away all the bullshit.

LOS ANGELES IS LIKE YOUR BRAIN. YOU ONLY EVER USE 20% OF IT. BUT IMAGINE IF WE USED IT ALL.

I have always believed that the quickest way off a jury panel is to announce that you are convinced that all cops lie or all cops are always right. Either way, a closed mind is a challenge for cause.

It's lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are.

Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.

What is it about nature that is so terrifying to the modern mind? Why is it so intolerable? Because nature is fundamentally indifferent. It's unforgiving, uninterested. If you live or die, succeed or fail, feel pleasure or pain, it doesn't care. That's intolerable to us. How can we live in a world so indifferent to us. So we redefine nature. We call it Mother Nature when it's not a parent in any real sense of the term.

The very concept of time travel makes no sense, since time doesn't flow. The fact that we think time passes is just an accident of our nervous systems—of the way things look to us. In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future aren't separate locations, the way New York and Paris are separate locations. And since the past isn't a location, you can't travel to it.

Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience.

In the information, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

Irrationality didn't atrophy with disuse. On the contrary, left unattended, the irrational side of man had grown in power and scope.

En la sociedad de la información, nadie piensa. Esperábamos desterrar el papel pero, en realidad, desterramos el pensamiento.

Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.

She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.

La mente puesta en la carne es muerte, pero la mente puesta en el espíritu es vida y paz.