Philosophy of Mind Quotes · Page 132

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

— George Bernard Shaw

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

— Nikola Tesla

To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state

— Albert Bandura

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

— Jonah Lehrer

We do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Control your thoughts and you control your circumstance.

— Robert Collier

An idle mind is not necessarily a devil's workshop but negative thoughts.

— Terry Mark

“What if insanity is just a heightened sense of perception?”

— Ania Ahlborn

“These imagined orders are inter-subjective, so in order to change them we must simultaneously change the consciousness of billions of people,”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of…

— Vladimir Lenin

We are all pilgrims on an elusive and endless road... Despite our attempts to build lives on stone foundations, our spirits continuously…

— Anthony Lawlor

Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“By dwelling mentally on the situation, event, or person that is the perceived cause of the emotion, the thought feeds energy to…

— Eckhart Tolle

You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Very few animals on earth have the ability to think cogent thoughts to begin with, but we humans have the luxury of…

— Mark Manson

When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they…

— Hildegard of Bingen

When you're an actress you are in a very specific position, cerebrally, I would think you know. You are a thinking person…

— Isabelle Huppert

The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not…

— B. F. Skinner

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know…

— Rajneesh

There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Now, if the cooperation of some thousands of millions of cells in our brain can produce our consciousness, a true singularity, the…

— John B. S. Haldane

“Our civilisation is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human,…

— Theodore Dreiser

When we observe our thoughts, we separate ourselves from them and we provide a space, and this is how we can control…

— Dr BK Satyanarayan

Each and every role I have done has been a conscious decision.

— Deepti Naval

See who is in the subject. The investigation leads you to pure consciousness beyond the subject.

— Ramana Maharshi

It is better to know than having that what if thought dwelling in your mind.

— Ivan Avendano

“Freud's thought is the most perennially open to revision.”

— Anonymous

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

— Sigmund Freud

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

— M. Scott Peck

“the brain has developed a constellation of mental sensations that feel like thoughts but aren’t.”

— Robert A. Burton

I was fascinated by the world. I thought, "I just want to be a part of this world."

— Richard Dormer

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“When you can't think clearly, climb to the top of your thoughts”

— Benny Bellamacina

Stop your thoughts, but stay awake, and you will experience the great ocean of peace beyond the mind.

— Anonymous

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

— Pope Francis

In the realm of divine consciousness, you can see beyond beliefs, beyond knowing, and beyond not knowing.

— Debbie Ford

Not going to let these thoughts in my head get the best of me. Gotta keep my head up!

— Anonymous

“Spoken words had more weight than those that lay dormant as thoughts”

— F.S. Bala