Mental Life Quotes

22 quotes by 17 authors

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
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
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
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
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
Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed. — Gerald Fischbach
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice. — Samuel Alexander
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: