Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is…

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

— Charlotte Bronte

The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.

— Gary Wolf

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

— Samuel Alexander

Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our…

— Anonymous

A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to…

— Thomas Merton

Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

— Boris Sidis

There is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level we can be thinking, discussing,…

— Thomas Raymond Kelly

“mental life—today I would speak of the life of System 2—is normally conducted at the pace of a comfortable walk, sometimes interrupted by episodes…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Over ninety percent of your mental life is subconscious. If you fail to make use of this marvelous power, you condemn yourself to live…

— Joseph Murphy

There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action,…

— Henri Bergson

“The material world constrain us, often with gret beneficence, to see each person and thing in its time and place, its historical context. But…

— Elaine Scarry

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

— Terence McKenna

The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental…

— Wilhelm Wundt

“But, mind you, it's like this; while you live your life, you are in some way an organic whole with all life. But once…

— D.H. Lawrence

“I appreciated that all animals have some form of mental life that reflects the architecture of their nervous system.”

— Oliver Sacks