Quotes About Mind

They have come up with a bold idea: Our minds, too, are shaped by conflict between our parents' genes.

We are stories, contained within the twenty complicated centimeters behind our eyes...

We are stories, contained within the twenty complicated centimeters behind our eyes, lines drawn by traces left by the (re)mingling together of things in the world, and oriented toward predicting events in the future, toward the direction of increasing entropy, in a rather particular corner of this immense, chaotic universe.

Quantum theory is of no direct help in understanding the mind.

Bertrand Russell describes the same idea thus: "the raw material out of which the world is built up is not of two sorts, one matter and the other mind; it is simply arranged in different patterns by its inter-relations: some arrangements may be called mental, while others may be called physical.

There is not an "I" and "the neurons in my brain." They are the same thing.

And hence this is what time is: it is entirely in the present, in our minds, as memory and as anticipation.

We think that our minds are all powerful but in reality they've evolved to do what we need to do, like hunt, eat and talk to one another. So the concepts in our head are designed to deal with animals, trees, rivers and people. There's no reason why they should be able to deal with atoms or galaxies. But I believe we're flexible and our minds are curious, so we can change our thinking.

The nature of time is perhaps the greatest remaining mystery. Curious threads connect it to those other great open mysteries: the nature of mind, the origin of the universe, the fate of black holes, the very functioning of life on Earth. Something essential continues to draw us back to the nature of time.

We suddenly remember that it's not the sun that's moving, but the Earth that's spinning and we see with the unhinged eye of the mind our entire planet, and ourselves with it, rotating backwards, away from the sun. We are seeing with "mad eyes" like those of Paul McCartney's Fool on the Hill. The crazed vision that sometimes sees further than our blurry customary eyesight.

due to the limitations of our consciousness we perceive only a blurred vision of the world and live in time.

The present is like the flatness of Earth: an illusion. We

We are stories, contained within the twenty complicated centimeters behind our eyes, lines drawn by traces left by the (re)mingling together of things in the world, and oriented toward the direction of increasing entropy, in a rather particular corner of this inmense, chaotic universe.

Hollandal? felsefeci Baruch Spinoza'n?n 17. yüzy?lda müthi? bir sa?duyuyla anlad??? gibi, bu ikisi ayn? ?eydir. "Ben" ve "beynimdeki nöronlar" diye iki ayr? ?ey yoktur. Bu ikisi ayn?d?r. Bir birey, karma??k ama s?k? s?k?ya bütünle?ik bir süreçtir.

Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

The monkey mind is constantly generating thoughts, which may appear as images, sounds, fragments, judgments, or memories. Sometimes, these thoughts pass through us like clouds. At other times, we may identify with them and get hooked by them.

When you bring mindful mindful awareness to your thoughts, you train your mind to settle, and, with time and practice, realize you don't have to react to every passing thought.

The only person I ever wanted to meet was Muhammad Ali. And of all the people I've ever met, he's the one who most impressed me. It's tough to listen to him. You gotta have patience. But you see how strong his mind is. Even now, he's one of the most intelligent people on the planet.

Cuántos días sin importancia! Los días sin importancia [ … ] me pesaban como una cuadrada piedra gris en el cerebro.

Dormir no es cerrar los ojos. La gente dice dormir y despertar, pero nunca sabe cuándo está dormida y cuándo no.

within himself, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7).

All that we see or seem, is but a Dream within a dream." Edgar Allan Poe

A person could explode if he had to think too much.

My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad—I've never changed my mind about that.