Quotes About Mind

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Treat the world like a head.

a rational analysis of the consequences of a decision does not make the decision rational; the consequences do not determine our decision; it is always we who decide.

The essential feature of dualist-interactionism is that the mind and brain are independent entities...and that they interact by quantum physics.

Natural selection has destroyed the proof for the miraculous specific intervention of the Creator. But it has left us with the marvel of the creativeness of the universe, of life, and of the human mind.

It is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence—rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.

For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present to it at the time)...always providing that one has the courage to ask questions, to be dissatisfied, to think with the mind and heart one ACTUALLY has, and not with the mind and heart one is SUPPOSED TO have.

I weight my mind as best I can to keep it close to earth With chunky little platitudes and bits of twisted mirth; For dust will gather in the house, and shirts unmended lie Unless you learn to keep your mind from gadding in the sky.

Some days my thoughts are just cocoons -- all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the grey woods of my mind; And other days they drift and shine -- such free and flying things! I find the gold-dust in my hair, left by their brushing wings.

most people have a deep desire, and are searching, for peace of mind and the ability to truly love and be loved unconditionally.

My favorite is: 2 Corinthians 10:5: "Casting down imaginations . . . and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

Do you really not know that to praise a woman's mind is to abuse her? Is everyone not convinced that where there's cleverness there's no heart? Has it not been decided that a clever woman is a sort of monster who can feel nothing? Ask anyone, they'll all tell you so.

we experience dream events as real in the moment. Neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinás went so far as to state that dreaming "is consciousness itself in the absence of input from the senses."3

A good memory, I'm sure," Zen returned. "But a memory nonetheless.

You must use your mind and not let it use you.

I must work on my mind. For now I realise: Everyone of us has a heaven inside.

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.

Her memories were beads jumbled loose in a box, unstrung.

When you have been told that your mind is unsound, there is a kind of despair that takes over

There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.

poet Taylor Mali—that 'changing your mind is one of the best ways of finding out whether or not you still have one'.

Drawing on his uncle's insights into the workings of the human mind, Bernays knew that the secret to influencing preferences lay not in advertising a product's attributes (it's bigger, faster, shinier!) but in associating that product with deeply held values, such as freedom and power.

Distinctions must be kept in mind,' he advised back in the 1960s, 'between quantity and quality of growth, between

My father said, You are a spirit. Where did you die? and we were equally alive. I thought to correct him but he was not in his perfect mind.