Quotes About Mental

A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man is purely mental because man is not just a disembodied mind. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it. It is only by making our knowledge part of ourselves, through action, that we enter into the reality that is signified by our concepts.

Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical--that is, capable of combining into mental wholes. So this reductive account can also be described as a form of panpsychism: all the elements of the physical world are also mental....

It seemed to him [Otto Kugelblitz] obvious that the human life span runs through the varieties of mental disorder as understood in his day—the solipsism of infancy, the sexual hysterias of adolescence and entry-level adulthood, the paranoia of middle age, the dementia of late life ... all working up to death, which at last turns out to be sanity.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.

I call it a November-loneliness because there is a sort of demanding stillness in my heart and it, more than ever, inflames both my mental and psychological system. November never pauses, it listlessly seems to show off, don't you think so? Or, rather, it does pause but it is always a hellish pause…

If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?

Yeah, I'm really worried. OK, so what's left on the big, big list of things I have to get done before I go insane or the world comes to end, whichever comes first?

I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.

I may have lost my mind for a time, but grief makes everyone crazy.

Yoga is the mastery of the mind's fluctuations.

La energía mental no es una sustancia fija. Sube y baja según la pasión y el compromiso que pongamos en lo que estemos haciendo en ese momento. El elemento diferenciador clave se encuentra en nuestra actitud y en nuestra sensación de resonancia con respecto a una actividad.

I could not focus on any one subject for long because my mind was cotton candy, wisps and swirls and strands, without substance.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

On the other hand, without excess mental baggage, playing music produces a feeling more exquisite than the sweetest nectar this world has to offer. It is the sound, smell and taste of grace.

You make yourself go to sleep. You just tell yourself it's a dream.

An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching" than to say My heart is broken.

The gods have become our diseases.

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

Every emotional state produces an alteration of consciousness which Janet called abaissement du niveau mental; that is to say there is a certain narrowing of consciousness and a corresponding strengthening of the unconscious which, particularly in the case-of strong affects, is noticeable even to the layman.

My aim was to show that delusions and hallucinations were not just specific symptoms of mental disease but also had a human meaning.

Be glad that you can recognize [your madness], for you will thus avoid becoming its victim.

Show me a sane person and I will cure him for you.