Quotes About Mind

Of course we have an 'unconscious mind' and this is partly what my book is about. But there is no general chart of that lost continent. Certainly not a 'scientific' one.

A really malicious letter should be read once only and destroyed, or best of all not read at all. These things lodge in the mind.

It's madness — Madness is where we live now.

Time had never been visible to him before.

He saw moving pictures. It was not quite like remembering.

One's mind is such an old rubbish heap. All sorts of little bits of machinery start up.

He had for many years now been spared the demons, though he was constantly aware of their continued presence. He could hear them, as it were, moving behind the wall. They belonged to him and would doubtless go with him to the grave. His mind too, like David's, ran irresistibly to the horror.

You know as well as I do that one can be imprisoned in one's mind.

You don't understand what it's like when things are terrible in your mind.

She has lost the instinct for happiness.

It's not even like memory. It's all just there. All the time, Willy? Every hour, every minute.

One's capacity to forget absolutely is immense.

A man who's as sick as Bruno can't be philosophical.

Was it that he had lived too long in his mind and was tired of the scenery?

There are people who occasion in one, as it seems automatically, obsessive egoistic anxiety and preoccupying resentment. When confronted with such people one should if possible run: or else deaden the mind to them. (Or behave in some 'saintly' manner not here relevant.)

But now he was dreaming, he was wildly imagining things.

It comes from the same root as jihad, 'to struggle,' but unlike violent struggle, ijtihad is about struggling to understand our world by using our minds. Which implies exercising the freedom to ask questions—sometimes uncomfortable ones. I spoke about why all of us, Muslim and not, need ijtihad.

His mind was like a cruel prison, giving his captive soul a sight of freedom, but no more

The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind.

Bazen insanlar?n junkie olmay? fark?nda olmadan s?rf bir parça sessizlik istedikleri için seçtiklerini düÅŸünürüm.

Il dolore è una cosa da concentrarcisi sopra.

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state.