Mind Quotes - Page 246

Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.

They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.

I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.

The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.

Repression forces your mind to be more deeply entrenched in those things from which you are trying to escape.

When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.

The mind map will change your life.

What's recommended is that if you have a good experience, don't get too excited. And if you have a bad experience, don't mistake it for a serious deviation or a sidetrack that you have to find your way back from. If you have a bad experience, just continue practicing as you were. In other words, whatever happens, just keep looking at your mind.

Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind, But as for me, hélas, I may no more. The vain travail hath wearied me so sore, I am of them that farthest cometh behind. Yet may I by no means my wearied mind Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore, Sithens in a net I seek to hold the wind. Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt, As well as I may spend his time in vain. And graven with diamonds in letters plain There is written, her fair neck round about: Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am, And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.

The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.

[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subject; it is well known, that the language and the notions proper to his own profession are infused into every subject, and all things are measured by the rules of navigation: and if he should take it into his head to philosophize concerning the faculties of the mind, it cannot be doubted, but he would draw his notions from the fabric of the ship, and would find in the mind, sails, masts, rudder, and compass.

Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind.

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial.

It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God.

There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.

The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.

Where the mind goes, everything follows.

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy.