Top 23 The Mind Body Problem Quotes
#1. No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.
Roy Wood Sellars
#2. Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.
Thomas Nagel
#3. Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.
Thomas Nagel
#4. 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
#5. Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Will Durant
#6. podcast called Skeptics Guide to the Universe,
Sia Mohajer
#7. Sex in the body is fine. Money in the wallet is fine. It is only a problem when they enter your mind.
Jaggi Vasudev
#8. 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
#10. 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
#11. Do you still insist on telling the truth even though you know that it could destroy this world?
Toba Beta
#12. Schuyler pulled Oliver close and hugged him tightly. "Thank you," she whispered. Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.
Melissa De La Cruz
#13. The ratman froze, staring at me. "Why are you laughing?" His voice held just a hint of unease. Good.
I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You've got to admit that's funny.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#14. 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
#15. If you take your kid in for the sniffles, you pay $20, but the full cost is $200. And so we need to get back to the price system where you see the full cost of health care, and then people will make smarter decisions. That will reduce health care costs, and it's a huge part of our economy.
Dave Brat
#16. 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
#17. We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.
Jojo Moyes
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone - employers and employees - from the issues that really matter.
Alfie Kohn
#23. Suicide is a mind-body problem that ends violently and without any winner. I
Martin Amis
