Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Now here is an oddity. A question for the zombie philosophers. What does it mean that my past is a fog but… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“The ability of each individual to ignite a thought and usher into reality that which was previously invisible into something visible is… — Oliver Harper Copy Share Image
“In 1714, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued that matter alone could never produce a mind. Leibniz was a German philosopher, mathematician, and scientist… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum… — George Greenstein Copy Share Image
“When you discover yourself lying on the ground, limp and unresisting, head in the dirt, and helpless, the earth seems to shift… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“State philosophy reposes on a double identity: of the thinking subject, and of the concepts it creates and to which it lends… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“The great boon of repression is that it makes it possible to live decisively in an overwhelmingly miraculous and incomprehensible world, a… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, we must make sure to heal our impaired vision, filter our perception, and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“Maturation in the psychological realm involves the differentiation of the elements of consciousness — thoughts, feelings, impulses, values, opinions, preferences, interests, intentions,… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
Zazen is seated meditation-the opposite of contemplation-the emptying of the mind of all thoughts in order simply to be. In the midst… — Huineng Copy Share Image
To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Inside each of us is a deep well of translucent water. A fluidity of thoughts and luminous feelings surrounds you and me.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Be very mindful of what and where your consciousness goes and how you are thinking at all times. It may be better… — Russell Anthony Gibbs Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is expensive,” she said. “This is a problem for totalitarian states. A human being with interest in leisure, art, agency—a human… — Neil Clarke Copy Share Image
“Freedom isn't an illusion; it's perfectly real in the context of sequential consciousness. Within the context of simultaneous consciousness, freedom is not… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
When I write about "realizations," I am describing a state in which a practitioner has wisdom of who she or he is,… — Russell Targ Copy Share Image
Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
“People say I have created things. I have never created anything. I get impressions from the Universe at large and work them… — M.D Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
“I believe that the more we understand about how our hemispheres work together to create our perception of reality, then the more… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
The nature of the Absolute is neither perceptible nor imperceptible; and with phenomena it is just the same. But to one who… — Huangbo Xiyun Copy Share Image
“I look in the mirror and see myself, and yet I really don’t. Only an image is perceived, not things I will… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“The overwhelming majority of time I spend thinking about myself, pleasing myself, reassuring myself, and when I am done there is nothing… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Nakamura Tempu Sensei viewed the mind as a segment of the body that could not be seen and the body as the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
