Mind Quote by Samuel Alexander

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

— Samuel Alexander

To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.

— James Douglas

If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being…

— Aristotle

There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the…

— Sophie Swetchine

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

— Aristotle

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

— Bodhidharma

Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is…

— Eckhart Tolle

“The thing can never be separated from someone who perceives it; nor can it ever actually be in itself because its articulations are the…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“However, the natural symbol, without our being sufficiently conscious of the fact, is identical with the reality of the world that appears to us,…

— Erich Neumann

“stood one day by the river on a dock where the ships came in, and all at once I found myself thinking, “If I…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them;…

— Joseph Joubert