mind

"Pratt, D.: John Eccles on Mind and Brain. A theosophical view."

"The idea of making machines that think has an unfailing fascination, not only for science fiction readers, but for all who can see it is a possible way of gaining some understanding of the working of …"

"The great defect, for Chamfort, consisted in the public’s reluctance to submit its thinking to the rigors of rational examination, and its tendency to rely instead on intuition, emotion, and custom. “…"

"The Union will awaken. It always has. We always will."

"Wouldn't much of what Heidegger, for example, tries to say, almost without success, forcing the German language, forcing it to generate difficultly intelligible phrases, or Hegel's attempts to think t…"

"The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel."

"Wahabbis think that holy sites are a manifestation of polytheism. They deem anyone who opposes them to be polytheist. They believe Shias, Sunnis, and the Islamic world are polytheist."

"Our life is determined for us — and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing and only think of bearing what is laid upon us and doing what is given us to do."

"The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, an…"

"Of all the wondrous elements in our vast and complex universe, there is perhaps nothing more intriguing, than consciousness."

"This is the guy I'll be thinking about when I put a gun to My head."

"Never trust a nigger: their minds and hair are full of kinks in equal measure."

"By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered."

"The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact they are young, but who neverthe…"

"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"

"Some people worry that to say we are nothing but matter is to deny that we think or feel. It’s not. The strange fact is that, when suitably arranged, matter thinks and feels."

"The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states."

"I resolved, as I walked, to be the most dangerous one I could be. And in my mind, that meant one thing: thought. Think things through; then act. First be patient; then be brave."

"The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outw…"

"Plato and his objectivistic successors … preserved the awareness of differences that pragmatism has been invented to deny—the difference between thinking in the laboratory and in philosophy, and conse…"