Mind Quotes

"Goethe said things that comfort the soul and the mind can bear" "The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong" "Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds" "There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked." "A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body" "The direction of education is to turn the mind" "History is the result of a cognitive revolution, not just progression" "The contradiction between free will and scientific determinism is just an illusion" "Your mind is your greatest asset, so be careful what you put into it." "The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are principally these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which way it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence. This is called abstraction and thus all its general ideas are made." "The created universe is but a dream of the mind existing in the mind of God" "When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state" "My thought is me: that’s why I can’t stop. I exist because I think, and I can’t stop myself from thinking." "It is the mind that commands the body and always obeys when the mind asks." "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise. " "Imagination and memory are but one thing, which for divers considerations hath divers names. " "The heart frames the universe, rendering it intelligible" "The theory of complexes forms the empirical foundation of the concept of the unconscious." "The whole terrible fight occurred in the area of my mind" "A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body"