Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Virginia Woolf

16 Philosophy of Mind quotes by Virginia Woolf

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Thoughts without words… Can that be?

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“Thoughts are divine.”

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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the…

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“How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so…

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But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit;…

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The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of…

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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the…

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“the thought process: "It swayed, minute after minute, hither and thither among the reflections and the weeds, letting the water lift it…

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“Looked at again and again half consciously by a mind thinking of something else, any object mixes itself so profoundly with the…

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“Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; but a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning…

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“Is it not possible that the accent falls a little differently, that the moment of importance came before or after, that, if one were free and could set down what one chose, there would be no plot,the moment of importance came before or after, that, if one were free and could set down what one chose, there would be no…

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“The morning was hot, and the exercise of reading left her mind contracting and expanding like the main-spring of a clock, and…

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“Nothing could be seen whole or read from start to finish. What was seen begun - like two friends starting to meet…

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“It was a splendid mind. For if thought is like the keyboard of a piano, divided into so many notes, or like…

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“Here is nature once more at her old game of self-preservation. This train of thought, she perceives, is threatening mere waste of…

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Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

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“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about to meet--what? What extraordinary adventure awaits me, among these mail vans, these porters, these swarms of people calling taxis? I feel insignificant, lost, but exultant. With a soft shock we stop. I will let the others…

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“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths are straight, the trees regular, the sun shaded; escorted by gentlemen, protected by policemen, wedded and buried by clergymen, she has only to walk demurely from cradle to grave and no one will touch a hair…

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“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of…

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Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

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“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing…

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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was…

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