Philosophy of Mind Quotes · Page 157

“The kingdom of consciousness is under siege by the desires of our mind. All”

— Om Swami

The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?

— Alice Meynell

Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought.

— Theobald Smith

“It is the result of thinking, not the process if thinking, that occurs spontaneously in consciousness.”

— David McRaney

“No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that created it.” – Albert Einstein”

— Teresa Burrell

“A good thing about a thought is that it can strike anytime.”

— Naveen Dahiya

I think in circles; I speak in circles. I unravel my thoughts that way.

— Nathan Englander

As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.

— Susan Sontag

Your life experience is unfolding in the precise response to the vibrations that radiate as a result of your thoughts, whether you…

— Esther Hicks

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

— Frances E. Willard

Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of…

— Frederick Lenz

“At certain times in history cultures have taken it for granted that a person wasn't fully human unless he or she learned…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts…

— Michael Leunig

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

— Robin G. Collingwood

What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy…

— Gaspar Noe

Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing…

— Francis Crick

“The thought made me feel a gasping, grabbing tightness in my chest. Like someone was holding a pillow over my mouth, only…

— Ciara Smyth

“We never see the people who are dear to us save in the animated system, the perpetual motion of our incessant love…

— Marcel Proust

And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality.…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“No one thing shows the greatness and power of the human intellect or the loftiness and nobility of man more than his…

— Giacomo Leopardi

The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts…

— Augustus William Hare

“You may think you see the world clearly—that the people in your life and even those you have never met are easily…

— Darren Main

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

— Wayne Dyer

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

— Samuel Richardson

Think and then think what you have thought. Is it really what you had thought. Think again.

— Anonymous

Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

— Lev S. Vygotsky

Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world itself.

— Napoleon Hill

All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

— Lynn Margulis

“The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.

— William James

Thoughts come and go like leaves in the wind, but the core of consciousness is forever.

— Deepak Chopra

“Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.”

— Nicholas Carr

My thoughts Big I just can't define. Wish I could turn back the hands of time.

— P Diddy

All that you achieve and all that you fail to achieve are the direct results of your thoughts.

— John Spence

All our thinking constitutes the new world, but all our thoughts are older and older.

— Jean-Luc Godard

The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.

— Herbert Marcuse

“When we have no hope for healing, our minds and bodies react in accordance with our thoughts and feelings.”

— Michael S. Barry

Small thoughts fear the future. Big thoughts are the future.

— Michael Port