Philosophy of Mind Quotes · Page 87

This is the consciousness revolution, You got the right to think, Don't think about it just do it

— Eyedea

Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.

— Georges Bataille

We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer.

— Jim Rohn

It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Juliette Lewis

We can think for ourselves and we can awaken the world to a greater consciousness.

— Anne Waldman

The greatest challenge to overcoming ignorance is the perception we know everything.

— Jordan Blake Michiels

Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

— Gaston Bachelard

“When i spend too much time in my head, focused on things in the past or things in the future... when i…

— Jaeda DeWalt

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm…

— Swami Sivananda

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting…

— Thomas S. Buechner

If you want to know the state of your personal consciousness, just look around and see what is happening to you.

— Deepak Chopra

The more we focus on the thoughts, the more powerful they become. Therefore, it can become very difficult to stop these endless…

— Senoraroy

“when your consciousness or mental attitude shifts, remarkable things begin to happen. That shift is the ultimate business tool and life tool.”

— Guy Spier

It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought…

— Andre Gide

If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations…

— Michael Persinger

I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from…

— Anonymous

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour…

— Oscar Wilde

The basis and firm groundwork of the material, and its primary contribution, lies in the concept that consciousness itself indeed creates matter,…

— Jane Roberts

“I am not going to call the alien brain I am stuck inside of by the name I am totally buggered—this damnified…

— John C. Wright

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Bill Porter

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

— Wally Amos

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

— Frederick Lenz

Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

I've always expressed my thoughts in color but we remain blind.

— Lauren Weisberger

Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.

— Albert Hofmann

Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines

— Frederick Lenz

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.

— Jasper Johns

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.

— William Butler Yeats

Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.

— Neil Postman

Our minds are information vacuums. Either we fill them with thoughts of our choosing or someone else will.

— Anonymous

“Thought is the bud, language the blossom and action the fruit behind it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— David Levithan

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

— Ronald Everett Capps

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

— John Ashbery

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

— Oprah Winfrey