mind

"I think we ought to have more oil. We ought to develop more sources of oil so that we can increase our supply. But the last thing I want to do is suck it all dry as quickly as we can. I want to use le…"

"In the White House, you never worry about the law. I never worried about the law, about breaking the law. This never entered my mind, and I doubt it ever entered the minds of people who asked me to do…"

"There are two kinds of animals on earth. One kind minds his own business, the other minds other people's business. The former are vegetarians, like cows, sheep and thinking men. The latter are carnivo…"

"I have this kind of philosophy that I can't do anything about what happened yesterday, or what's going to happen tomorrow. But I feel in full control of what's going on now. I think worry will make yo…"

"When you are a player, you think, 'Me! Me! Me!' When you are a manager, you think 'You! You! You!'"

"The brain remains silently separated from the noisy endocrine consequences."

"To make maps that work, we must depict categories using methods that match the structures of human mental categorization."

"You have no concept of Magarak’s reality; you refuse to think; you live by ready-made emotional doctrines—a substitute for thought. What is worse, you try to wrench reality to fit your ideas."

"Man’s mind is very fast, faster than the wind. By doing work while repeating God’s Name, your mind becomes cleansed of thoughts and useless, negative thoughts cannot enter it."

"Get out of my BRAIN!"

"Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images."

"If you think, as a Western person, that you are not affected by religious traditions, you are sadly mistaken."

"This is the tragedy: Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are—hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones."

"Christianity depends finally on consciousness and experience. From other departments of the mind she may retire at times or seem to, but never from this. Sitting here, if allowed to, on the throne of …"

"The emotional quality of what we moderns call our thought produces an extreme violence of conviction combined with extreme incoherence in our arguments. I refer here to ordinary people and not to an i…"

"I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable—how we decide what is valuable."

"The DC comics were always a lot more true blue. Very enjoyable, but they were big, brave uncles and aunties who probably insisted on a high standard of you know mental and physical hygiene. Whereas th…"

"The legacy of rotary machine design can be seen, in part, as an inhibition of linear motor experimentation, even as far as the 1970s. In rotary machines, the tangential direction was the thrust direct…"

"Pure psychic automatism, by which one seeks to express, be it verbally, in writing, or in any other manner, the real working of the mind. Dictated by the unconsciousness, in the absence of any control…"

"The highest degree of consciousness, the crassest form of 'false consciousness' always manifests itself when the conscious mastery of economic phenomena appears to be at its greatest."