We will move from looking at correlations between brain…

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

Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .

— Gautama Buddha

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

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