Quotes About Mental

People who are crazy rarely question whether they're crazy,

tu salud espiritual está conectada a tu salud física, y ambas están conectadas a tu salud mental y emocional. Un problema en un área afectará a todas las demás.

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

Patience is Recovery of The Mind

there used to be, dirtside, a legal defenses called diminished capacity and not guilty by reason on insanity. These concepts would bewilder a Loonie. In Luna City a man would necessarily be of diminished mental capacity to even think about rape; to carry one out would be the strongest possible proof of insanity - but among Loonies such mental disorders would not gain a rapist any sympathy. loonies do not psychoanalyze a rapist; they kill him. Now. Fast. Brutally.

But he described our shortcomings, physical, mental, moral, and genetic, in great and insulting detail.

What a man doesn't know he can't spill if he is captured; neither drugs, nor torture, nor brainwash, nor endless lack of sleep can squeeze out a secret he doesn't possess.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway, the priest added cynically, which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

Of course, it is fairly easy to see that other people's minds operate this way; it is comparatively much harder to become aware that one's own mind is working that way also.

All kinds of maps or models also show, on examination, the personality or mental furniture of their creator, and, to a lesser extent, of the creator's society and linguistic system(s) — the semantic environment.

As psychiatrists and psychologists have often observed (much to the chagrin of their medical colleagues), the Thinker can think itself sick, and can even think itself well again.

You can easily kill yourself with negative mind-sets, by developing ulcers, heart problems, high blood pressure, etc., or by drunken driving, or simply by getting so depressed you jump in front of a train. Conversely, you can survive "objective realities" that would mentally or physically destroy others, if you are maintaining a positive mind-set.

In short, we are living in a mental transform space--Tielhard de Chardin's noösphere--that is, an omnidimensional halo expanding towards infinity in all directions. And the electronic center of this halo of mentation, this noösphere, is poentially everywhere. It is all available to you right where you are sitting now. Just plug in a terminal. The machine doesn't care who or what you are.

Try. Thoughts are the one phenomena still private in this world; they won't come around and arrest you at once. You have nothing to lose but mental chains. You might have a world of psychological freedom — creativity — to gain.

To think that I am not going to think of you anymore is still thinking of you. Let me then try not to think that I am not going to think of you.

Suppressing legitimate anger is unhealthy. Continually venting anger is also unhealthy.

All thought is a feat of association.

People with a lot of time on their hands are extremely susceptible to seduction. They have mental space for you to fill.

Even with skills that are primarily mental, such as computer programming or speaking a foreign language, it remains the case that we learn best through practice and repetition—the natural learning process.

Another book gives the illusion of scientific precision by working out this reasoning in a mathematical formula using a "Mental Performance Ratio (MPR)

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

Perspective was a luxury when your head was constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

El único enemigo al que un afgano no puede derrotar es a sí mismo.