"The mind is the reality. You are what you think."

Alfred Bester Literature See all quotes by Alfred Bester →

React to this quote

More by Alfred Bester

“The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.”

“Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.”

“Yes, no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we’re always licked by something from the inside. There’s no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.”

“Powell repressed the wave of exasperation that rose up in him. It was not exasperation with Chooka. It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them.”

“He awoke. He was alive. He wasted no time on prayer or thanks but continued the business of survival.”

““That’s me,” he said, motioning to the robot. “That’s all of us. We prattle about free will, but we’re nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.”

Resonant Thoughts

"One of the things that I learned in the war is that we're not the top species on the planet because we're nice. We are a very aggressive species; it is in us. People talk a lot about how well the mi…"

— Karl Marlantes

Literature1944

#mind

"In the seventeenth century, it is said, there was a dissociation of sensibility. The poets could no longer think and feel at the same time. All we are saying is that something analogous happened while…"

— Martin Amis

Literature1949–2023

#mind

"The free-thinking of one age is the common sense of the next."

— Matthew Arnold

Literature1822–1888

#mind

"Reality is being itself. — It is being itself, in becoming itself. Reality in its isness, the "isness" of a thing. Thus isness is the meaning — having freedom in its primary sense — not limited by att…"

— Bruce Lee

Entertainment1940–1973

#freedom