Quotes About Mind

Shed locked it away, inside a drawer in her mind, and hidden the key.

Aristotle said to Alexander, that a mind well furnished was more beautiful than a body richly arrayed. What can be more odious to man, and offensive to God, than ignorance. Reginald Scott, A Discoverie of Witchcraft, 1654

Christ re-enacts in the outward historical world what is being enacted at all times in the inner world of the soul. In man the Spirit becomes the ego in order that the ego may become pure Spirit; the Spirit becomes ego by incarnating in the mind in the form of intellection, of truth, and the ego becomes the Spirit through uniting with it.

During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

After all, to the truly skeptical mind, diabolic forces are just as reasonable building blocks for the cosmos as mindless electrons. No possibility, however seemingly fantastic, should revolt the truly skeptical mind.

The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume.

It's no game. Believe me, she is a woman of far greater complexity than you—or anyone—realize. The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume. Oh, she has extraordinary charm. Next to that secret charm of hers, her talent as a poet is really only a sort of costume.

I do not need a scabbard to sheathe my mind.

I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.

To be too conscious is an illness — a real thoroughgoing illness.

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

What you call the subconscious, is in my opinion the real human consciousness.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction…. For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

NT is alarmingly complex. Consisting of six million lines of code, the program is among humanity's most intricate handiworks. "No one mind can comprehend it all," Cutler says. A

His short attention span was both endearing and aggravating. His mind would wander so much that those who really needed to speak with him tried to isolate him from distractions. "To talk to Gordon you had to take him in the car, drive and not let him turn on the radio," one said.

he had made such and such a move, then I had such and such a winning combination in mind.' But the 'great game' of chess is primarily psychological, a conflict between one trained intelligence and another, and not a mere collection of small mathematical theorems.

Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, "i". And each time his i is different. just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.