mind

"It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think."

"There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existen…"

"It’s amazing what superstitions survive in fearful minds."

"I think 'No Comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."

"Another common deficiency is the failure of some panaceas to take into account a social system's developmental responsibilities to its stakeholders."

"Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity."

"It were to be wished that no youth of genius were suffered ever to look into Statius, Lucan, Claudian, or Seneca the tragedian; authors who, by their forced conceits, by their violent metaphors, by th…"

"...the ultimate objective of teaching physics is promoting a sound physical thinking and not merely tackling a list of topics."

"Take a good look at me. Now tell me, do you think I'm the sort of fellow who gives a fuck what happens once he's dead?"

"We should be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brain falls out."

"Abstain rigorously from eating the flesh of cows and all beneficent animals, lest you be made to face a strict reckoning in this world and the next; for by eating the flesh of cows and other domestic …"

"I don't think there's a quick fix to this. I don't think there's any simple way to deal with this. And I will not support amnesty for anybody, I mean, that would be rewarding bad behavior."

"The overarching ideas that have influenced my work and fueled my interest in conscious and unconscious memory derive from a perspective on mind that psychiatry and psychoanalysis opened up for me."

"The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity."

"I used to stay up very late at night, much later than I probably should have for such a youngster, and I used to watch very old black-and-white movies with, you know, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, bu…"

"Some believers are fundamentalists about everything, but every believer is a fundamentalist about something."

"I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion."

"The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact."

"I will do everything I can as Prime Minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months but I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its nex…"

"Who am I? Subject and object in one — contemplating and contemplated, thinking and thought of. As both must I have become what I am."