“The third, to conduct my thoughts in such order that, by commencing with objects the simplest and easiest to know, I might… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. Then,… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
“Most of us think about empathy as a “feeling” or an “emotion.” It is. To be empathetic is to be able to… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“if this store of cosmic prana were inanimate, without a will and a direction of its own, we could very well flatter… — gopi krishna Copy Share Image
It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Social consciousness has become a gimmick to excuse reprehensible behavior. In fact, put “social” before any word, and it becomes “important” and… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Thoughts are not feelings, they are ideas of how you should feel. When thoughts and feelings get confused, the truth becomes clouded… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
“The work of human thought should withstand the test of brutal, naked reality. If it cannot, it is worthless. Probably only those… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image
“Maybe I’m inclined to what Nietzsche called “impure thought,” that is to say, a kind of thought where abstractions are so mixed… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
One of man's important mistakes, one which must be remembered, is his illusion in regard to his I. Man such as we… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“A great shift in consciousness is now occurring on our planet. This shift depends completely upon those of us who are in… — Robert Schwartz Copy Share Image
“The mind roams more widely in the dark than it does in light. It is no surprise, then, stepping out of the… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“Generally speaking, our mind is predominantly directed towards external objects. Our attention follows after the sense experiences. It remains at a predominantly… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
Man is more than his environment. It is from the innate quality of the Spirit in him, his inner storehouse, that he… — Nilakanta Sri Ram Copy Share Image
The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory… — William James Copy Share Image
[T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt… — Wilfrid Sellars Copy Share Image
If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You don't meditate to experiment with altered states of consciousness or whatever else. You meditate only to perceive by yourself that everything… — Daniel Odier Copy Share Image
If we define 'thought collective' as a community of persons mutually exchanging ideas or maintaining intellectual interaction, we will find by implication… — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
“Whether you think consciousness to be a benefit or a horror, this is only what you think—and nothing else. But even though… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Thoughts well up in our mind moment by moment. But we refrain from doing anything with our thoughts. We just let everything… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
“Our culture, self-toxified by the poisonous by-products of technology and egocentric ideology, is the unhappy inheritor of the dominator attitude that alteration… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination. Unfortunately, our current culture subscribes to a… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear, attaining to moments when thinking ceases. And those are the most blissful… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just as ripples radiate from the place where a stone is thrown into a pool of water, our sometime-unconscious thoughts, feelings, emotions,… — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“I drove without a destination, idly wondering what problems troubled other drivers locked in their glass and metal worlds, individual and isolated.… — Jane Harvey-Berrick Copy Share Image
“So far as we know, the tiny fragments of the universe embodied in man are the only centers of thought and responsibility… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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