Philosophy of Mind Quotes · Page 159

Don't think so much that your thoughts change your intentions.

— Anonymous

“Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.

— Criss Jami

I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

— Ayn Rand

“We see the crashing waves exploding every now and then, without consciousness.”

— Lisa-Marie Enaaja

Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds. You can either grow flowers, or you can grow weeds.

— Anonymous

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

— Val Kilmer

“The stars are God's dreams, thoughts remembered in the silence of his night.”

— henry david thoreau

You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people…

— Adolf Hitler

You might have extensive bouts of thinking exceedingly nasty thoughts, but because you are relating to those thoughts with mindfulness and compassion,…

— Sharon Salzberg

“You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!”

— Suman Pokhrel

It becomes necessary to realize that the body is not conscious, but we are conscious of the body, also that the mind…

— Ernest Wood

I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

— Tamara Mellon

I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which…

— David Hume

“human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions”

— Salman Rushdie

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse…

— Abraham Lincoln

Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer,…

— Asher Peres

“Where we stand depends on where we sit." Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we…

— Stephen R. Covey

“In the days after my heart attack & before I began to write again, all I could think about was dying. I'd…

— Nicole Krauss

Since the universe must contain millions of appropriate planets, consciousness in some form - but not with the paired eyes and limbs,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he…

— Willa Cather

“There is a level of consciousness between sleeping and fully wakening when the worries of the day have not settled upon us;…

— John Wyatt

“The most fundamental exercise is self-observation, which is the catalyst for inner change, it will give self-knowledge and a clear mind and…

— Belsebuub

“[...] these questions gave way, in the course of time, to a different preoccupation, namely, a slow and growing awareness of familiarity…

— Jonathan Coe

In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.

— Joseph Brodsky

“We were just putting words to our thoughts to see if they had wings.”

— Johanna Hedman

Crowd action is the outcome of agreement based on concurrence of emotion rather than of thought.

— Mary Parker Follett

I believe in diversity in thought, in culture, and all sort of things.

— Harris Faulkner

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

— Erich Fromm

“Our soul contains energy, transformed into Spirit, expressing dreams and thoughts through works of the mind.”

— Stacy Snapp Killian aka StacyK

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

— Andrew Lakey

“It is your vibrational thoughts that give life to the goals you wish for.”

— Stephen Richards

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

— Mike Leigh

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

— Karl Marx

“Thought Suppression or Mind Control. I'm not sure which I enjoy best.”

— Sienna McQuillen

If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest.

— Seungsahn

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

— Andre Gide