Philosophy of Mind Quote by Thomas Henry Huxley

The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or…

— Joseph Campbell

“There are things around us and about, of which I can render no distinct account--Things material and spiritual; heaviness in the atmosphere; a sense…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Philosophers are always trying to climb up the fine hairs of the fur in order to stare right into the magician's eyes.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“He tried sedatives and hypnotics but they made him dependent, sending him inward in tight spirals. Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic.…

— Don DeLillo

“The mind is certainly a very mysterious organ, I reflected, drawing my head in from the window, about which nothing whatever is known, though…

— Virginia Woolf

“The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing…

— Oscar Wilde

“The scene was not without a mixture of awe, such as must always invest the spectacle of guilt and shame in a fellow creature,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Thank you to those gentle, dancing lights in my life for remembering that within this monster under my skin, there is a throbbing, beating…

— Lillian Olson

“I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me. I turned half-way round and saw Dorian Gray for the first time. When…

— Oscar Wilde

“Dragon's eyes flew open. He stared at his hand curved over the alabaster mound of a perfectly formed breast, at the delectable rose-hued nipple…

— Josie Litton

“How could I not be sure that the child turned into a dragon before my eyes? I do no drink spirits and I am…

— Theresa Snyder

“He saw an idiot in a yard in a leather harness chained to a clothesline and it leaned and swayed drooling and looked out…

— Cormac McCarthy