Mental Life Quotes
22 quotes by 17 authors
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From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental life…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle…
— Alfred Adler
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Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature -- i.e.,…
— Karl Marx
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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now…
— Henri Bergson
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Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.
— Gerald Fischbach
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The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives…
— Arnold Bennett
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Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is…
— Hermann von Helmholtz
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The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual…
— Edward Thorndike
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A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind…
— Allen Johnson
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I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
— Samuel Alexander
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Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
— Samuel Alexander
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Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes…
— Samuel Alexander
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Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.
— Mark Haddon
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Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to…
— William Ralph Inge
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At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy…
— Daniel J. Siegel
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A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man…
— Thomas Merton
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Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings,…
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Who Wrote These Mental Life Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 22 Mental Life Quotes as follows: