Philosophy of Mind Quotes · Page 76

When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The subconscious is ahead of the conscious, and we never know what really drives us.

— Robert H. Schuller

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

— Cesare Pavese

Examining your thoughts is an important part of the practice of self-reflections

— Ryuho Okawa

You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities.

— Jim Carrey

As the meditation evolves, you attention passes into higher realms of consciousness.

— Frederick Lenz

Consciousness is the greatest movie-maker in the whole world.

— Mooji

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your…

— Frederick Lenz

Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.

— Robert Graves

“The only time I can get the thoughts to stop is when I get lost in something very creative and puzzle-like—and then…

— Eric Maisel

If we really reflect and discriminate, we'll find that all things are created by our perception, that all states exist within the…

— Frederick Lenz

Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

— Honore de Balzac

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought…

— Eckhart Tolle

“And language, (...) is not just another faculty or skill, it is what makes thought possible, what seperates thought from nonthought, what…

— Oliver Sacks

“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and all acheivement.”

— Claude M. Bristol

“The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought, and both pleasant and unpleasant external conditions are factors,…

— James Allen

I meditate at airports because those are the places where I’m extremely tense, and I often meditate while I’m walking down the…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Come, what do we gain by evasions? We are under the harrow and can’t escape. Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable. And…

— C.S. Lewis

“It is certain that such a revolution in thought - that is, such an expansion of consciousness, such an evolution of intelligence…

— Schwaller de Lubicz

You will find scientists who will tell you — and they deeply believe it — that we’re quantifiable. We are knowable. That…

— Jad Abumrad

Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the…

— Camille Paglia

“You act in certain ways because you have certain thoughts that over your lifetime have become habitual. Habitual patterns of thought and…

— Martha Davis

As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered…

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intention is the core of all conscious life. Conscious intention colors and moves everything.

— Hsing Yun

The universe never says no to your thought about yourself. It only grows it.

— Neale Donald Walsch

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

— Humphry Davy

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

— Barbara Kingsolver

We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

— Voltaire

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

— Leon Kass

“Consciousness is the one thing in this universe that cannot be an illusion”

— Sam Harris

Beaches, music, and car rides—they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts.

— Deb Caletti

I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

— Alison Jackson

There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Perception is blind to the knowledge that you cannot understand.”

— Lionel Suggs

The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

— Albert Einstein

“Your perception of me, of life, of others ... is always a reflection of something in you.”

— Brittany Burgunder

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

— Joseph Brodsky

A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out.

— Jean-Paul Sartre