mind

"There’s nothing quite so pernicious as wishful thinking."

"Problem solving has traditionally been taken to be an essential function of management. Through systems thinking, however, we have come to doubt the existence of problems and solutions to them."

"To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization."

"I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended."

"“This is the stuff which some Nazis wished to put into our churches,” whispered von Bek. “Pagan objects of worship which they claim are the symbols of a true German religion. They are almost as anti-C…"

"Perhaps we might reverse the idea and state that it is only when third subplane matter of a certain percentage is contained in the vehicles, that the Personality as a conscious whole recognises and ob…"

"Well, there it is. I think you can pass your verdict as well as I can. My verdict is that it is a little bit of a regression to childhood, but after all, why not?"

"Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will."

"Keep in mind that the practice of dream interpretation is not generally useful for spiritual advancement. People codify things and events as positive or negative based on culture. Even within a cultur…"

"In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the…"

"When I have to think about it, I know the picture is wrong. And sizing is a form of thinking and coloring is too. My instinct about painting says, 'If you don’t think about it, it's right'. As soon as…"

"I wouldn't mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge. … The approach and strategies are very similar. In the stock market you do not base your decisions on what the market is doing…"

"The idea that consciousness is a mystery is a prejudice inherited from monotheism. The early seventeenth-century French philosopher René Descartes believed that animals other than humans are insensate…"

"I mean there’s something magical about filmmaking and people that work within film. It’s the most beautiful thing, because so many people are coming together and they just think about a common goal. I…"

"When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. We all have it; it's a great equalizer. White people come up to me and tell me that Roots has star…"

"What is the internally free man free from? First of all - he or she is free from fear of people and life; from conventional opinion. He or she is independent from the crowd, from stereotypical thinkin…"

"Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed."

"Individual liberty is the whole purpose of political life, and I thought it was threatened then and I think it's threatened now."

"The absolute morality that the religious person might profess would include what, stoning people for adultery, death for apostasy, punishment for breaking the Sabbath; these are all things which are r…"

"The brain is the medium of expression of the human mind. Similarly the entire physical universe would be the medium of expression of the mind of a natural God."