Philosophy of Mind Quotes · Page 99

Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.

— Fernando Pessoa

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

Control your thoughts and you control your circumstance.

— Robert Collier

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

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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

— Ania Ahlborn

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

— Terry Mark

Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.

— Rumi

Once you begin to understand and truly master your thoughts and feelings, that's when you see how you create your own reality.

— Marci Shimoff

We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

— Anonymous

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores…

— Anatole France

I think I write a lot, but it's always a continuous stream of consciousness, I guess. It's a mechanic. It's a discipline…

— Olivia Merilahti

“It is more useful for the magician to consider living systems not as some unaware little eddies in a universal consciousness field,…

— Gordon White

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious…

— Thomas Carlyle

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Individuals who require a great deal of outside information to form representations of reality in consciousness may become more dependent on the…

— Anonymous

“To thinking, cogitation, I oppose fullness, embodiedness, the sensation of being – not a consciousness of yourself as a kind of ghostly…

— J.M. Coetzee

True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if…

— Albert Pike

The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost...a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it…

— David W. Orr

Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and…

— William Penn

Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping…

— Haruki Murakami

“What went on in that head of his? I would soon come to understand that he gave voice to only a fraction…

— Karen Thompson Walker

He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought…

— Anonymous

“I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from…

— David Brooks

“Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking?”

— Onyi Anyado

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Our thoughts, our feelings, our dreams, our ideas, are physical in the universe.

— Will Smith

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Nikola Tesla

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

Your thoughts are the most important asset you have in your desire to achieve your dreams.

— Senora Roy

Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. -”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A kind thought, word, or action creates infinite ripples of caring, consideration, and peace.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

— Epictetus

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

— Paul Simon