Top 23 Mind Body Problem Quotes
#1. Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.
Thomas Nagel
#2. Suicide is a mind-body problem that ends violently and without any winner. I
Martin Amis
#3. We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.
Dr. Seuss
#4. Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.
Natalie Angier
#5. The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.
W. Somerset Maugham
#6. I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.
John Barrowman
#7. Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish. And my level of fear and anxiety of getting injured is greater than my courage.
Jake M. Johnson
#8. We're all prostitutes if you think about it. The whole capitalist system is built on meretriciousness. You sell your body or you sell your mind, and the Cartesian mind/body thing is a fallacy anyway, your mind is just your brain, so it amounts to the same thing really.
M. Thomas Gammarino
#9. Sickness is a problem for the body, not the mind - unless the mind decides that it is a problem. Lameness, too, is the body's problem, not the mind's. Say this to yourself whatever the circumstance and you will find without fail that the problem pertains to something else, not to you.
Epictetus
#10. No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.
Roy Wood Sellars
#11. You can't rock the boat & act like you were just trying to put a baby to sleep.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#12. I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.
Antonio Banderas
#13. He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).
David Levithan
#14. We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.
Tippi Hedren
#15. Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.
Thomas Nagel
#16. Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.
Paulo Coelho
#17. Men's views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.
David Hume
#18. A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
Kathleen Norris
#20. Addressing the problem required standing up and shoving his hand into his pants to free his testicles from the grip of his underwear. He was not ready for such a commitment, so he endured. The mind can imagine nothing except while the body endures.
Aleksandar Hemon
#21. Sex in the body is fine. Money in the wallet is fine. It is only a problem when they enter your mind.
Jaggi Vasudev
#22. I think there is a metaphysical problem of the relation between mind and body. Thinking that there is no metaphysical dimension to the problem is an error.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
#23. I had an advantage over a lot of people who had gone to school and earned degrees in writing and had learned the rules for writing, so to speak. My style was just to tell a story but to tell it well, and that has worked out for me so far.
Robert Kurson
