Collective Mind Quotes

#1. If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.

Terence McKenna

#2. Al Jazeera is the opinion of other opinion, independent. Al Jazeera is diverse, reflection of the collective mind of the nations and cultures and civilizations that we report from and we report to, bridge of dialogue. This is what Al Jazeera is all about. Al Jazeera is a mission.

Wadah Khanfar

#3. We need to see our collective mind as the vehicle that will take us to the destiny of our dreams

Julian Pencilliah

#4. Man is nature, nature man, and all crude and raw, stinking, vicious, evil. And holding that evil lightly because the collective mind refuses to recall the spring of mountains, the vault of seas and, of course, beside that, the puny murder of millions.

John A. Williams

#5. -at least in the collective mind of the Society.

Ally Condie

#6. Trust is a collective mind - the corporate culture. You can't build and nourish trust without creating a conducive environment of trust.

Pearl Zhu

#7. Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.

Deepak Chopra

#8. Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

W. Somerset Maugham

#9. Inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

Eckhart Tolle

#10. I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.

Marilynne Robinson

#11. When you are doing things together, you are inside the collective mind, and share psychic knowledge with each other. That is how you become one.

Dharma Mittra

#12. The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

Joy Harjo

#13. There's no rule book for the world. It's in our heads, our collective human hive-mind. If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want.

Isaac Marion

#14. Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another.

Geert Hofstede

#15. The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.

Ayn Rand

#17. Look, you can't think of a person like it's one thing, one 'I' that decides everything. The brain is a collective, a huge number of all these thinking modules. It doesn't make a decision, it arrives at one.

Daryl Gregory

#18. The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside us, the collective unconscious, the many lives, the divine eternal parts, the senses and parts of the brain that have been ignored.

Zsuzsanna Budapest

#19. Punishment is now unfashionable ... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Thomas Szasz

#20. When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.

Jerry Saltz

#21. One of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement.

Geoffrey Hill

#22. In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

Jacques Monod

#23. I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard - explored not only with robots, but with the mind, body, and soul of our species.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#24. We're proud of the work we're doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing's more important than keeping in mind the needs of older adults - and how valuable a role they play in improving the city, based on their amazing collective talent and wisdom.

Rahm Emanuel

#25. Creativity comes from the spiritual realm, the collective consciousness. And the mind is in a different realm than the molecules of the brain. The brain is a receiver, not a source.

Candace Pert

#26. Innovation is to connect the dots - synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.

Pearl Zhu

#27. The mind creates all the problems for an individual or for the collective. One has to go beyond the mind into thoughtless awareness, where there is peace.

Nirmala Srivastava

#28. Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.

Marshall McLuhan

#29. Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We need to open our mind. This is the only solution we have.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#30. Numbers, furthermore as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dynamic, active aspect which is especially important to keep in mind. It is not what we can do with numbers but what they do to our consciousness that is essential.

Marie-Louise Von Franz

#31. To know the reality one has to enter into the realm of Meta-science, beyond mind, which is only possible when we enter into the collective super-consciousness through self-realisation.

Nirmala Srivastava