Philosophy of Mind Quotes · Page 129

Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. - Out of My Life and Thoughts.

— Albert Schweitzer

“The role of your genius spirit is to essentially heal, transform, and evolve consciousness.”

— Carolyn Elliott

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

— Alfred North Whitehead

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.

— Amit Ray

As the thoughts so the mind. If thoughts are good, mind is good. If thoughts are bad, the mind is called bad.

— Chinmayananda Saraswati

“Good thoughts can become reality with Cosmic Ordering.”

— Stephen Richards

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out…

— Charles Spurgeon

Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise…

— H. W. L. Poonja

“When your footsteps and thoughts carry you down the same path your heart and soul are directing you, you will know without…

— Molly Friedenfeld

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between…

— Octavio Paz

Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself…

— Jose Rizal

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

— Albert Camus

“Nothing and no-one can raise our consciousness to a field of pure bliss unless we are open to the timeless dimension operating…

— Christopher Dines

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

— Allan Bloom

“Our consciousness on the physical plane is relatively crude. We view choice making in terms of language, but like time, language is…

— Shepherd Hoodwin

I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters' thoughts and realizations, either through thought balloons…

— Adrian Tomine

All physical and nonphysical things have another side, a side that is not visible to the senses or accessible to the reasoning…

— Frederick Lenz

“Even though there is something out there that is not the world-for-us, and even though we can name it the world-in-itself, this…

— Eugene Thacker

Each of us has a network of emotional and logical associations that is unique to us. Activate one mode of the association,…

— Maria Konnikova

“Consciousness is inwardness in time. It makes the world present for you by creating a new space in your mind—the space of…

— Thomas Metzinger

In knowledge of human affairs, we should never allow our minds to be enslaved by others by subjecting ourselves to their whims.…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“The most important thing to remember, though, is that thoughts are devoid of any essence. In their own right, they have neither…

— Om Swami

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

— Anonymous

“There are times when a man has need of the open heavens to compass his thoughts.”

— Kathryn Worth

Think outside the box.I think that there is no box at all.Let your creativity,thoughts and imagination fly...

— EwshyCrazyness

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

— Richard Prince

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

— Lin Yutang

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

— Kingsley Amis

No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.

— Albert Einstein

In a way, it's all down to perception, isn't it? And everyone has their own take on everything.

— Annie Lennox

You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment.

— David D. Burns

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

— Alva Noe

Perception is all there is. If the customer think he's right, he's right.

— Tom Peters

Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.

— Timothy Findley

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

— Norman Vincent Peale

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

— Ken Wilber

“Perception is reality, and self-image is self-perception.”

— Michelle Tillis Lederman

“Books and people are alike in one respect: they're both full of thoughts.”

— Matthew Lipman