Philosophy of Mind Quotes · Page 72

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

— Juliette Lewis

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

— Albert Schweitzer

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.

— Jasper Johns

Beautiful thoughts flit across the brain, like butterflies in the sun's rays, and are as difficult to capture.

— Anna Cora Mowatt

Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality.

— Chris Murray

“I thought we might share some wine." "Thinking doesn’t become you.”

— Matt Tomerlin

“Humans are in danger of losing their economic value because intelligence is decoupling from consciousness.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.

— Ken Wilber

“Where do thoughts come from, Father?” King Mafferan looked deeply into his twelve-year-old eyes. “While I may not be sure all thoughts…

— Darryl Steven Markowitz

We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But…

— Nick Offerman

Each time we exhale, the world ends; when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It…

— Tom Robbins

People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.

— Cass McCombs

Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.

— Frederick Lenz

Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The Great Secret of Life is the law of attraction that says like attracts like, so when you think a thought, you…

— Rhonda Byrne

I remind myself of the power of thought and how it's my obligation as a citizen (and student) of humanity to propel…

— Alyssa Milano

“One thus arrives at a curious conception of thought. Thought has no real, concrete existence, accessible to immediate consciousness, since the datum…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“The awareness needed for meditation, at least some forms of it, seems analogous to what lucid dreamers seek to develop. Meditators, especially…

— Robert Waggoner

“The problem is that we cannot recognize that what we say about out thoughts and actions is, at best, incoherent; we can…

— Israel Rosenfield

“Every time one of those 50,000 thoughts takes place, chemicals are produced in your brain that can trigger reactions felt throughout your…

— Travis Bradberry

Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they…

— Asvaghosa

Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of…

— Gary Shteyngart

“If the State is to have reality as the ethical, self-conscious realization of spirit, it must be distinguished from the form of…

— Karl Marx

...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside…

— Tove Jansson

I thought a thought but the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought!!!!

— KALEB HAILEMELEKOT

“Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way.”

— Milton Glaser

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

— Oprah Winfrey

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—

— John Ashbery

“...like two children who had, for the first time, discovered someone who shared their thoughts...”

— Ronald Everett Capps

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

— David Levithan

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

— Anonymous

Many times we've shared our thoughts, but did you ever, ever notice, the kind of thoughts I got?

— Johnny Cash

“Consciousness provides the fertile ground where seeds of greatness are born.”

— Gary Gordon

“Thoughts can creep up on you, or they can hit harder than a wrecking ball.”

— Malorie Blackman

The highest thought is always a thought which contains joy.

— Neale Donald Walsch

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

— Anonymous

Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.

— Frederick Lenz

Remember that everything starts with a thought and thoughts produce in kind.

— Wally Amos

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

— Bill Porter