Mental States Quotes

#1. I've played a bunch of different versions of Walter [from Fringe].I loved it when he was being random, which was probably the original version of him, more than anyone else. I loved doing Walter then, and all of the different mental states that we've played.

John Noble

#2. The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.

David Malet Armstrong

#3. Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.

Norman Cousins

#4. To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state

Albert Bandura

#5. Higher states of awareness is a by product of mental development and conscious evolution.

Bryan Kest

#6. Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about a disease.

Susan Sontag

#7. We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.

Jonathan Shapiro

#8. If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#9. In the United States, people with depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia are losing twelve to twenty years in life expectancy compared to people not in the mental health system. (176)

Robert Whitaker

#10. Our goal is not to ignore the problems of life, but to put ourselves in better mental and emotional states where we can not only come up with solutions, but act upon them.

Tony Robbins

#11. Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude them from our circle.

John Darnielle

#12. If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Margaret Atwood

#13. The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

#15. Normally we are so identified with our thoughts and emotions, that we are them. We are the happiness, we are the anger, we are the fear. We have to learn to step back and know our thoughts and emotions are just thoughts and emotions. They're just mental states.

Vicki Mackenzie

#16. In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description, remains to be seen.

Patricia Churchland

#17. By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

Edward Walker

#18. You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'

Victor LaValle

#19. The novelist has brought us to that state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied tenfold, into which his book comes to disturb us as might a dream, but a dream more lucid, and of a more lasting impression than those which comes to us in sleep;

Marcel Proust

#20. All the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

Sigmund Freud

#21. Dispassion is the best of mental states ...

Gautama Buddha

#22. The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

Rick Mercer

#23. While physical states can be publicly known, mental states are only privately known. This characteristic of the mind is not shared with the brain; the properties of the brain and the mind are not identical.

J. Warner Wallace

#24. We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.

John O'Keefe

#25. If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.

Dalai Lama

#26. If you are not satisfied with what is coming to you, start to work and change your mental attitude and mental states, and you will see a change gradually setting in.

William Walker Atkinson

#27. You really have to get to know the person's mental state. You have to understand what drives them and what motivates them.

Robin Farina

#28. And mental states may be inferred from actions. The tyrant rarely sends a handwritten note requesting the elimination of an enemy.

Julian Barnes

#29. The two centrepieces of social intelligence are the possession of extensive social knowledge about other individuals, in terms of knowing who allies and friends are, and the ability to infer the mental states of those individuals.

Steven Mithen

#30. Socrates insisted that there's a strong connection between your philosophy (how you interpret the world, what you think is important in life) and your mental and physical health. Different beliefs lead to different emotional states...

Jules Evans

#31. While positive mental states may be associated with less stress and more resilience to infection, positive well-being might also be accompanied by a healthy lifestyle.

Michael Greger

#32. The male climax was accompanied by a split second entirely devoid of thought. A brief mental vacuum. A moment of clarity during which God could be glimpsed. Meditation gurus achieved similar states of thoughtlessness without sex and often described Nirvana as a never-ending spiritual orgasm.

Dan Brown

#33. Fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism
something it is like for the organism.

Thomas Nagel

#34. The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.

Frederick Lenz

#35. The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state.

Harold Lloyd

#36. A computer model which manipulated data about itself and its "surroundings" in essentially the same way as an organic brain would have to possess essentially the same mental states. "Simulated consciousness" was as oxymoronic as "simulated addition.

Greg Egan

#37. I keep saying this about a mental state, but the more that I am physically active, the more that my mind is clear.

Julianne Hough

#38. That mental states can be inferred from actions. That's in history - Henry VIII and all that. Whereas in the private life, I think the converse is true: that you can infer past actions from current mental states.

Julian Barnes

#39. Wanting to be on television is a mental illness. Wanting to be president of the United States, wanting to be an actor - these are degrees of the same mental illness. If you need to be approved of simultaneously by more people than are in this room now, there's a problem.

Keith Olbermann

#40. Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.

Frederick Lenz

#41. We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

Elyn Saks

#42. What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

Richard Powers

#43. We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones.

Jerome Bruner

#44. Positive emotions and mental states may make people more resilient to stress, like sturdy tree branches that bend but don't break when battered by a storm

Melanie Greenberg

#45. When you eat pure food that isn't genetically modified, your physical and mental state does improve and it's worth the effort to make that happen.

Laura Prepon

#46. This violent state of mind.
This violent state of mine.

Don Winslow

#47. Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states of mind which delude or afflict us are called 'delusions.'

Dalai Lama

#48. We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

Tenzin Palmo

#49. When different identity states convey contradictory information and then have amnesia for what the other identity states said, the patient may be thought to be lying. This can appear to be characterological mendacity when it is not.

Elizabeth F. Howell

#50. It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#51. Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

#52. Today, over 50 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness, a rate nearly five times greater than that of the general adult population.

Bryan Stevenson

#53. You can't love somebody into a state of mental health.

Harold Ramis

#54. Most adult emotions are emergent properties. They are subjective mental states that represent the convergence of more primitive

Anonymous

#55. So, anyway, I think that cultivating positive mental states like kindness and compassion definitely leads to better psychological health and happiness.

Dalai Lama XIV

#56. To any mental state there corresponds a physical condition.

Arthur Alfred Lynch

#57. By going along with feelings, you unify your emotional, mental and bodily states. When you try to fight or deny them, you divorce yourself from the reality of your being.

Jane Roberts