Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.

— Frederick Lenz

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it,…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules,…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

“There are three mental states that interest me. These are: one, amnesia; two, euphoria; three, ecstasy. Amnesia is not knowing who one is and…

— Tom Robbins

Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.

— Norman Cousins

If I have a combination of calm and fear, I access mental states way beyond normal consciousness. That's why I choose to do scary…

— Dean Potter

An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance…

— Knut Hamsun

We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.

— John O'Keefe

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I don't think any of my desires or beliefs or other mental states are external to me. Many people will occasionally feel alienated from…

— Nomy Arpaly

“Normally we are so identified with our thoughts and emotions, that we are them. We are the happiness, we are the anger, we are…

— Vicki Mackenzie

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not…

— Susan Sontag

Any attempt to capture the direct experience of the nature of mind in words is impossible. The best that can be said is that…

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

“Samādhi, as wholesome concentration, collects together the ordinarily dispersed and dissipated stream of mental states to induce an inner unification.”

— Bhikkhu Bodhi