Famous Quotes - Tags - Mind, The

  • ... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must... More
  • ... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour). More
  • ... language is meaningful because it is the expression of thoughts—of thoughts which are about... More
  • ... looped with the creep of varying light,
    Monkey-brown, fish-grey, a string of infected... More
  • ... my today’s self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take. More
  • ... only of a living human being and what resembles (behaves like) a living human being can one... More
  • ... thinking consists in being conscious that one thinks. More
  • ... thoughts are a “source of intentionality”Mi.e., nothing would be intentional were it not... More
  • ... [f]or a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain. More
  • A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil... More
  • A clear, attentive mind
    Has no meaning but that
    Which sees is truly seen.
    No one... More
  • A computer does not think, it feels nothing, and what it is said to “know”—bits of... More
  • A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is. More
  • A Man’s body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a... More
  • A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world,... More
  • a mind
    That nobleness made simple as a fire,
    With beauty like a tightened bow, More
  • A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince. More
  • A small voice issued from a bed placed in utter darkness where no ray of light was admitted,... More
  • A well-proportioned mind is one which shows no particular bias; one of which we may safely say... More
  • all senses

    including the mind, that worker on what is More
  • all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes,... More
  • All the shad’wy tribes of Mind,
    In braided dance their murmurs joined, More
  • All the unhurried day
    Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives. More
  • All things are ready if our minds be so. More
  • Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that... More
  • Always, a few errands
    Summon us periodically from the room of our forethought
    And that is... More
  • An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which. More
  • An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing. More
  • An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the... More
  • An “inner process” stands in need of outward criteria. More
  • Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis... More
  • As Ah Ling would say, “Even though the eyes may see, the mind will not believe.” More
  • as if in a fog of feather-light
    goosedown-silvery seed-thoughts
    a rusty mind in its... More
  • As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached... More
  • Bring the balloon of the mind
    That bellies and drags in the wind
    Into its narrow shed. More
  • Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind;
    but a loving heart sates the... More
  • But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not... More
  • Can you read my mind? Do you know what it is that you do to me? More
  • Computers are good at swift, accurate computation and at storing great masses of information. The... More
  • Computers were originally just supposed to be number-crunchers, but now their number-crunching... More
  • Computers “remember” things in the form of discrete entries: the input of quantities,... More
  • Consciousness is cerebral celebrity—nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious... More
  • Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable. More
  • Cut the pie any way you like, “meanings” just ain’t in the head! More
  • Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question... More
  • Delusions that shrink to the size of a woman’s glove,
    Then sicken inclusively... More
  • Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. More
  • Despite many assertions to the contrary, the brain is not “like a computer.” Yes, the brain... More
  • Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were... More
  • Even the simple act that we call “going to visit a person of our acquaintance” is in part an... More
  • Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it... More
  • Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty... More
  • Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to... More
  • Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind. More
  • Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven.... More
  • every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems... More
  • Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life... More
  • For what but eye and ear silence the mind
    With the minute particulars of mankind? More
  • Foul whisp’rings are abroad. Unnatural deeds
    Do breed unnatural troubles. Infected... More
  • Full of troubles, the mind is still the only Garden of Delight. More
  • fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it... More
  • Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will... More
  • Gravity is a kind of mystical behavior in the body, invented to conceal the defects of the mind. More
  • Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks... More
  • He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.... He does not have... More
  • He moved with the shades of the dead and the dead-born and the unborn and the never-to-be-born,... More
  • Her green mind made the world around her green. More
  • How frugal is the Chariot
    That bears the Human soul. More
  • Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. More
  • I am alone here in my own mind.
    There is no map
    and there is no road.
    It is one of a... More
  • I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things,... More
  • I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it... More
  • I do wish you’d stop reading my mind.... It’s so frightfully disconcerting—like being... More
  • I don’t feel you can help me. You’re very wise, you know a great deal, yet when you speak of... More
  • I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through... More
  • I have a mind myself and recognize
    Mind when I meet with it in any guise.
    No one can know... More
  • I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends... More
  • I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in... More
  • I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of... More
  • I think that in the swift white mind’s brain
    Neurons flash images of a world
    Undead... More
  • Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the... More
  • If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams,... More
  • If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free. More
  • If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them,... More
  • If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behavior of a creature as revealing... More
  • In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of... More
  • In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more... More
  • In the faith that looks through death,
    In years that bring the philosophic mind. More
  • In the umbra, the tunnel, when the mind went wombtomb, then it was real thought and real living,... More
  • Inscribe it in the remembering tablets of your mind. More
  • Instruct them how the mind of Man becomes
    A thousand times more beautiful than the... More
  • is an enchanted thing
    like the glaze on a
    katydid-wing More
  • Is it possible
    That any may find
    Within one heart so diverse mind,
    To change or turn... More
  • Is there no way out of the mind? More
  • Isn’t it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks... More
  • It can never be satisfied, the mind, never. More
  • it is a power of
    strong enchantment. It
    is like the dove-
    neck animated by
    sun;... More
  • It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his... More
  • It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind... More
  • It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that... More

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