Philosophy of Mind Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“only the failure to strategically control the contents of your consciousness keeps you from feeling the consistent internal charge of being fully alive, engaged,…

— Brendon Burchard

“Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.”

— Maureen Murdock

“Modern man has the possibility of understanding the mechanism of consciousness, and marching directly towards his objective, with the will flexed to its maximum…

— Colin Wilson

“What if you are the awareness, and you were just pretending to be attached to a particular body-mind for the experience it provides consciousness?”

— Gina Lake

“Every act of becoming conscious (it says here in this book) is an unnatural act”

— Adrienne Rich

“intentional stance: we refer to objects both animate and inanimate as if they have minds as a shortcut to figuring out what is really…

— David DiSalvo

Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins

— Tony Hsieh

“Unconscious neural activity cannot be made conscious no matter how hard one tries. Part of ourselves is always hidden to us.”

— David Amerland

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of…

— Wilhelm Wundt

“For an ideal #life, the body, mind and spirit have to be in perfect balance, and this can only happen if we operate our…

— Gian Kumar

Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.

— William S. Burroughs

When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some…

— Bertrand Russell