Philosophy of Mind Quotes · Page 63

Customize your thoughts in order to personalize your behavior.

— Joseph Mercado

“Reality is perception. Perception is description. Description is creation. Creation is life.”

— David Krae

Every single cell in your body is affected by every single thought that you have.

— Jack Canfield

We can fly, you know. We just don't know how to think the right thoughts and levitate ourselves off the ground.

— Michael Jackson

People need space to air out their thoughts, to have a sense of themselves - unfettered by anything.

— Patti Smith

No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

— Abel Stevens

Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.

— Emily Dickinson

“Appetite is governed by our thoughts, but hunger is governed by the body.”

— Clement G. Martin

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

— Swami Vivekananda

Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.

— Huineng

In order to see the world clearly, you must clean the windows of perception. The only problem is, our society doesn't do…

— Dean Lombardi

Your first thought is often the best one. You know, the one that felt too weird or silly or stupid. Trust your…

— Karin Tidbeck

As you evolve and develop your psychic abilities, you will enter into perceptions of life, truth, beauty and you will gain a…

— Frederick Lenz

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

— Stanley Fish

My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

In the mind of a person with too much hatred, he regards as conclusive all his negative perceptions to the object of…

— Toothangel15

To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the…

— Jack Canfield

I'm very interested in the question of how we perceive something, how consciousness goes from one thing, like looking at you in…

— Hilton Als

You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that…

— Joseph Campbell

“The self who is undone in the encounter with the abyss, that is, the preabyssal self, lives with a misguided consciousness. Without…

— An Yountae

“A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I love hanging out with my friends and family. I really, really, really love articulating original thought. That's probably my core, my…

— Caroline Myss

“What did I learn and internalize from the experience? That our challenge is to let go of our old stories that defined…

— Colette Baron Reid

“There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the”

— Ryan Holiday

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

— Peyton Hillis

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

— Mason Cooley

You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.

— Julia Cameron

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

— Abraham Maslow

“Perception is the lie that we convince ourselves exists”

— Melissa Bradley

“First Principle of Biocentrism: What we perceive as reality is a process that involves our consciousness.”

— Robert P. Lanza

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

— James Allen

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

— T. E. Lawrence

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

— Clifford D. Simak

The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.

— John Archibald Wheeler

There's an interconnectivity between what's in the consciousness of cat and what's in the consciousness of us.

— Russell Brand

“But nothing awakens religious consciousness like suffering.”

— D.T. Suzuki

“Not unconsciousness, but a ceasing of perception and feeling is experienced.”

— Ayya Khema

Your thoughts determine who you will become. -Proverbs 23:7

— Bible

Not every thought is a candle! Some thoughts can make the world darker!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan