In all probability, mental states are processes and…

The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions…

— Eric Kandel

Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

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

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