Philosophy of Mind Quotes · Page 122

“All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

You determine your future by the thoughts and pictures you hold in your mind today.

— Brian Tracy

“Oh, I've been fully conscious for years. It's my greatest strength you know, consciousness.”

— McKellon Meyer

I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

— Frantz Fanon

“Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

— David Abram

Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.

— Grant Morrison

I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.

— Pablo Picasso

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“By looking to the scriptures to understand how precious God’s thoughts are about us, we can begin to see ourselves with increased…

— Kristen Clark

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

— Martin Heidegger

If we had the fundamental laws of nature tomorrow, we still wouldn't understand consciousness. We wouldn't even understand turbulence.

— Steven Weinberg

All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is

— James Agee

The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and…

— Abhinavagupta

“However, current research in animal cognition, and on protolanguage, protomorality, ritual, and levels of consciousness, has shown that we may not be…

— J. Wentzel van Huyssteen

“Attitudes strung together become beliefs, and related beliefs strung together become perceptions. Over time, this redundancy creates a view of the world…

— Joe Dispenza

“How can I think, feel, and behave differently to produce the effect/result that I want? Our mission, then, is to willfully move…

— Joe Dispenza

“The True Self quietly observes the playground where thoughts take form, where games are played, and the gunas obeyed. These are the…

— Alberto Villoldo

“That we are rational agents—that a great many of our actions are not merely the results of serial physiological urges but are…

— David Bentley Hart

We are forced to choose, for the processes we have initiated in our lifetime cannot continue in the lifetime of our children.…

— Ervin Laszlo

“The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are tranquil in appearance yet formidable. You pass close to them every…

— Victor Hugo

“I readily believe that there are more invisible than visible Natures in the universe. But who will explain for us the family…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out…

— John O'Donohue

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into…

— Anonymous

Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.

— Napoleon Hill

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

— Edward Gibbon

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

— Anzia Yezierska

“Filling up your soul with the depths of your own thoughts, that's just extraordinarily progressive.”

— Devil Dash

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“Our vision controls our perception which becomes our perspective - and thus our reality.”

— Timothy Bax

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

— Eric Hoffer

Sometimes consciousness devises an obstacle in order to have the experience of transcending it.

— Mooji

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

— Anonymous

“Our thoughts and our mind-sets greatly affect our perception of what life is really about”

— Wogu Donald

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

— Elon Musk

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

— Aldous Huxley

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

— William Shenstone

I understand the difference between perception and reality.

— Rashami Desai

The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.

— Frantz Fanon