Mental States Quotes
18 quotes by 15 authors
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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If you are not satisfied with what is coming to you, start to work and change your mental attitude and mental states, and you will…
— William Walker Atkinson
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Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .
— Gautama Buddha
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Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite complex ways. But…
— Russ Shafer-Landau
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Freedom and slavery are mental states.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Any attempt to capture the direct experience of the nature of mind in words is impossible. The best that can be said is that it…
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have…
— Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is,…
— Hermann Ebbinghaus
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If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes…
— Dalai Lama
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By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade…
— Edward S. Walker, Jr.
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We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on…
— Jerome Bruner
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Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.
— Norman Cousins
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The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.
— Frederick Lenz
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Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.
— Frederick Lenz
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An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in…
— Knut Hamsun
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What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.
— Richard Powers
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You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.
— John O'Keefe
Who Wrote These Mental States Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 18 Mental States Quotes as follows: