Quotes About Mind

A Mystery in short is an invitation to the mind. For it means that there is an inexhaustible well of Truth from which the mind may drink and drink again in the certainty that the well will never run dry, that there will always be water for the mind's thirst.

truths, I am not at all so sure. Some monstrous shapes flit about the Catholic mind: I remember an educated Catholic

and use the uttermost effort of our mind to purify them of the limitations that arise in them from our limitation. That is the way of advance for the mind. Human language is not adequate to utter God, but it is the highest we have and we should use its highest words.

And as we shall see, the direct power the human mind has over its own body, mightier spirits have over all matter.

Few intellectuals have the independence of mind or the will to oppose either state centralization or militarization.

Wendla: How did you come here? Melchior: I followed my thoughts.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.

You mind your tongue!" "Oh, I do," I said. "I sharpen it every evening on your name.

Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you don't know how you got from one to the next.

I knew that tune, but I couldn't remember it. It hovered on the edge of my mind. I tried to grab it, but you can't just grab your memories. You have to pretend not to pay attention to them, which makes them mad. You have to trick them into sneaking up on you from behind.

you can't get at a memory as you might get at a splinter. You can't poke about in your mind with a sterilized needle

Truth is irrelavant to the treading out of brain paths.

Truth is irrelevant to the treading out of brain paths.

truth is entirely irrelevant to the treading out of brain path

Feelings arise when emotions penetrate our consciousness, and we become aware of them.

Emotions belong as much to the body as to the mind.

The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. —Charles Darwin (1871)

The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life.

All mental phenomena have in common, "that they are only perceived in inner consciousness, while in the case of physical phenomena only external perception is possible.

Las cadenas de la esclavitud sólo atan las manos: es la mente la que hace al hombre libre o esclavo

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

So humanity is not the helpless plaything of a dead mechanism, but its development consists precisely in the growing power of the human mind over the dead mechanism of nature. But - and this is only said by historical materialism - the human spirit develops from, with and out of the material mode of production. The human mind is not the father of the mode of production, but the mode of production is the mother of the human mind.