Top 100 Quotes About Philosophy Of Mind
#1. I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.
David Chalmers
#2. Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.
David Chalmers
#3. ALways be careful what you say. You can always say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.
F.B. Newman
#4. Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.
Baruch Spinoza
#5. He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.
Baruch Spinoza
#6. Regardless of what you believe in or conceive of as the functionality of Reality, the Oneness of you with all you experience in your life is an absolute
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#7. Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.
Debasish Mridha
#9. Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind is large and open, like Buckminster Fuller's. She found thoughts dull that suggest that men are superior to animals or plants.
John Cage
#10. Brahman is the ultimate reality; it is simultaneously Saguna and Nirguna; divisions are due to ignorance. Mind and intellect can never catch hold of it; they have only one option and that is to merge with it.
Amit Ray
#12. One word can change your life forever.
I love you
I hate you
Think about it
Alan Macmillan Orr
#14. A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Manly P. Hall
#15. The subconscious mind is the product of universal consciousness, universal knowledge, and universal beauty. It is the reflecting mirror of our conscious mind. The subconscious mind is always eager to manifest through our conscious mind.
Debasish Mridha
#16. Music, Schopenhauer wrote, is not unconscious arithmetic, as Leibniz had claimed, but unconscious philosophy, since in music the inner essence of the world, which is will, is made directly present to the mind.
Roger Scruton
#19. Through the window of my soul and the mirror of my mind, I was looking for the beauty of my life. I could not find it, but I found it in the glint of a dew drop at the edge of a dancing leaf.
Debasish Mridha
#20. Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.
John Stott
#21. Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
Seneca The Younger
#22. My mind is a lock pick always looking for another door to open. I often find those doors by exploring minds of others ...
Hewitt E. Moore
#23. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
Ayn Rand
#24. Hope is a flower bud in the garden of the mind, waiting to bloom in the morning sun.
Debasish Mridha
#25. I get lost in the magical beauty that is all around me. My mind is an enchanted magician who mysteriously creates all of that magnificent beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#26. I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. 'Flour and sugar,' she said, and then thought a bit. 'Sometimes we'll buy pretzels as a splurge.'
It crossed my mind that the world's most efficient psychological evaluation would have just one question: Define splurge.
Barbara Kingsolver
#27. The will to love, the desire to help, and an open mind with gratitude can unlock the door to eternal happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#28. There are more treasures hiding in between your ears than can be hidden in the whole earth.
Debasish Mridha
#29. The page is to the story as the seed is to the flower.
Bankei Yotaku
#30. Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly.
Abhijit Naskar
#31. Smiles are the dance of our soul,
with the music of love,
to express the beauty of mind,
for the happiness of spirit,
and for the joy of the world.
Debasish Mridha
#32. The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search.
Swami Vivekananda
#33. Spirituality is the ability to say - It is OK, in every circumstance.
Rajesh Nanoo
#35. Learn to read deeply. It will slowly open your mind's eye, and will be able to see the secret beauty of the universe and understand its deeper essence.
Debasish Mridha
#36. I often want to drink a cup of moonlight so that I may calm my heart and soothe my mind.
Debasish Mridha
#37. If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.
David Deida
#38. And if ever you need encouragement, remember at least two sober facts which nobody can rationally deny: that you are a new and unique living force in nature, and that you can, by taking thought and pursuing it, become more and more intensely alive.
John Steeksma
#39. Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.
Abhijit Naskar
#40. Let us fill our mind with kindness, heart with love, and life with joy.
Debasish Mridha
#41. The only way to find happiness is to create it inside your mind.
Debasish Mridha
#42. Fill your mind with thoughts of calmness and happiness; there will be no room for anxiety.
Debasish Mridha
#43. [Alan] Watts did two main things for me. He opened up the connections between what I was doing and the traditional Oriental philosophies. And he pointed me toward the distinction between Self and Mind.
Werner Erhard
#44. The best and biggest gold mine is in between your ears. To find the gold, think deeply and think better.
Debasish Mridha
#45. Yoga is not only a process of the integration of the soul, mind, and body for self-improvement, it is a process of self -realization and self -acceptance.
Debasish Mridha
#46. You will find your true spirit when you lose your egocentric, self-centered desires and fill your mind with pure love and non-judgmental thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#47. To be a winner in life, be simple and be kind.
You will win the heart and you will win the mind.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Beauty is in the holiness of the heart and in the simplicity of mind.
Debasish Mridha
#49. Indeed, of the major religions, Islam offers no discernible sliver of valid notion for How Life Works.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#50. Philosophy is the dance of conscience on a stage called the mind.
Debasish Mridha
#51. Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.
Edward Gibbon
#52. Whether you practice a traditional religion or a universal version of spirituality, it is necessary to keep an open mind for learning and growing.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#54. I am with you always. You just have to find me by opening your inner eyes and closing your egocentric mind.
Debasish Mridha
#55. All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
Marcus Aurelius
#56. A writer's thoughts can act as an Aladdin's lamp, which can enlighten and open the mind of a reader, by showing opportunities and beauties of life.
Debasish Mridha
#58. You may not be able to find peace until you create it inside your forgiving mind.
Debasish Mridha
#60. If you picture other people as superior to yourself, you will realize that
mental image. Putting a preacher, a saint, a prophet, an expert or anybody up on a pedestal in your personal view, fundamentally accomplishes nothing but the effect of putting you in a pit.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#61. I do not believe for a moment that the Scriptures are against wealth. But the warning to those who make wealth their pursuit is a stern reality. Wealth must be processed through a philosophy of life that is greater than wealth itself. If not, it shapes the mind for bitter disappointments.
Ravi Zacharias
#62. The mind is not only capable of knowing [innate ideas], but further of finding them in itself; and if it had only the simple capacity to receive knowledge ... it would not be the source of necessary truths ...
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
#63. The mind is an invisible net that can catch any event with its power of perception.
Debasish Mridha
#64. Peace of mind is a perception of a calm and quiet mind.
Debasish Mridha
#66. When you're angry and the fire of revenge is burning your mind, that is the best time to practice calmness, forgiveneess, kindness and love
Debasish Mridha
#67. To find true peace, forgive those who fill your mind with hatred and instead show them the path of love.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Marcie: I know you're still wounded. Danny, you have to let it go. That is what this mind game is all about, discovering who we are.
Humans lie to themselves all the time. There should be no disgrace in being human, that is what I believe.
Andrew Neff
#70. You cannot conquer the mind of a man, if you do not know his heart and you cannot win over his heart, if so you do not know his mind.
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#71. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
Ayn Rand
#72. If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.
George Lakoff
#73. Your mind is the most powerful magnet. What you think, you attract.
Debasish Mridha
#74. Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery is predicated on something that really brings you into enlightened states of mind.
Frederick Lenz
#75. Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.
D.B. Harrop
#76. Create your own god in your mind whom you can love, trust, and follow.
Debasish Mridha
#77. Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.
Abhijit Naskar
#78. To enhance your inner beauty, harmonize your mind and thoughts with nature through meditation.
Debasish Mridha
#79. A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?
Ayn Rand
#80. A knowledgeable person without a curious mind is like poetry without essence.
Debasish Mridha
#81. Give away everything - even your heart, soul, and mind. Nothing is yours. Keep your experiences and your memories. Those are yours and they make you who you are.
Debasish Mridha
#82. A tattoo is permanent; with a marriage you can more easily change your mind.
Carolyn V. Hamilton
#83. Vocal cords are not rental units. No Hebrew prophet, nor Mohammed, nor any founder of any cult or religion ever spoke the words of anybody but themselves.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#84. The mind creates a story in a strange way. Love keeps us together in this eternal play.
Debasish Mridha
#85. Beliefs and definitions never clarify how Reality works -- they only distort perception of it.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#86. Poetry has its own unique language which every mind translates differently according to their own personal view.
Debasish Mridha
#87. If you find that you "disagree" with something I've written, then you missed the point!!
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#88. You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#89. Consequently, theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the mind as emerging from the forces of living matter, or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter, are incompatible with the truth about man. Nor are they able to ground the dignity of the person.
Pope John Paul II
#91. When your mind is tranquil, happy and peaceful, you will find peace everywhere.
Debasish Mridha
#92. What you think of about a nation or a situation is your self-expression and mind's reflection.
Debasish Mridha
#93. What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.
Ayn Rand
#94. My philosophy is, "murder the rapist in your mind so you stop killing yourself." I've seen, in my lifetime, that sexual abuse has turned into self-abuse. When I kill the rapist inside of me, I will stop killing myself.
Margaret Cho
#95. You are the world. Everything that you see around you is a reflection of your soul and mind.
Debasish Mridha
#96. When you are able to fill your mind with tranquility and inner peace, this world becomes very peaceful.
Debasish Mridha
#97. Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are sufficient to themselves. Happiness is elusive
coming perhaps once in a life-time
and approaching ectasy.
Daphne Du Maurier
#99. We should keep in mind that there are always more truths to know, and we will know more as we evolve. Being faithful to what we already know is the key that opens the door to higher truths.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#100. Where a mediocre mind finds adversity, a great mind finds great opportunity.
Debasish Mridha
