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Mind Quotes by Siri Hustvedt
- We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a…
- Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.
- The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.
- The computer model will be replaced by an organic model, in which the brain-mind is embodied - part of a whole, dynamic, living organism: one…
- In August of 2002, I survived a car accident. Although I can still see the van speeding toward us, I cannot bring to mind the…
- The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of…
- The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment.
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle