Quotes about Mind

Shame is life-dominating and stubborn. Once entrenched in your heart and mind, it is a squatter that refuses to leave.

My wants are what concern me. That's where the battle must be fought.

Addiction is bondage to the rule of a substance, activity, or state of mind, which then becomes the center of life, defending itself from the truth so that even bad consequences don't bring repentance, and leading to further estrangement from God.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.