Quotes About Mind

And indeed, the mind of contemporary man, of whatever level of intellectuality, is only able to take cognizance of the world by means of data which, whenever accidentally or intentionally activated, arouse in him all sorts of fantastic impulses.

Men have their minds and women their feelings more highly developed. Either alone can give nothing. Think what you feel and feel what you think. Fusion of the two produces another force.

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

Even as it clouds our corporeal vision, intoxication clarifies our spiritual vision. The mind, set free from the heavy bondage of the body, flees away like a prisoner whose guard has fallen asleep, leaving the keys at the prison gate.

All healing journeys begin and end in the body.

Empty the mind of all its chatter and see what's there. This is the work of self-knowledge: to uncover your authentic self.

Sam's doctor said to him, "The good news is that the pain is in your head." But I am in my head, Sam thought.

Memory, you realized long ago, is a game that a healthy-brained person can play all the time, and the game of memory is won or lost on one criterion: Do you leave the formation of memories to happenstance, or do you decide to remember?

I missed her like a reflex, even though I knew that it was just some trick of my undependable brain. Some stupid, vestigial part. The way humans have appendixes, even though they're pointless and mainly just a pain in the butt and people never even think about them unless they have to have them removed.

what greater enemy does one have than oneself?

There are no ghost, but up here"--she gestured to her head--"it's a haunted house.

The pain seemed to occupy spaces in his mind that had heretofore been untouched or reserved exclusively for imaginary endeavors.

There are no ghosts, but up here", she gestured toward her head "it's a haunted house".

The man who has no memory makes one out of paper.

I Am a Strange Loop, by Doug Hofstadter

Una cosa davvero magnifica del modo in cui il cervello era programmato, rifletté, era che poteva dire: «Scusi», mentre in realtà pensava: Vaffanculo.

The good news is that the pain is in your head." But I am in my head, Sam thought.

As the brain is detaching from the body, you think, How I will miss the horses.

They say it's all in my head." Marx thought about this. "But what pain isn't?

There are no ghosts, but up here" --she gestured to her head-- "It's a haunted house.

I don't mind," Sam said. "I think you love pizza more than I do anyway." "When I was a kid." Sadie made a face at him. "You sure you don't mind?" "I mean, I mind

There are no ghosts, but up here' -- she gestured toward her head-- 'it's a haunted house.

He is thinking about his brain. It strikes him that it is odd to have to use the thing that may not be working to consider the thing that isn't working.