Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.

I became really interested in the study of consciousness.

Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.

I've studied psychology. I'm fascinated by the human mind, and I love people.

I've always loved science, as far back as I can remember. I was very, very curious about how everything worked: the world, the physical universe, chemistry, law. So it was only natural to be curious about how our mind works.

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

I have always been interested in that relationship between what happens in our head and what happens in the world.

I love the human mind.

More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.

I think psychology would be an easy transition and figuring out the human mind somehow.

The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

When you understand how the mind-brain functions together, you know that faith, which is believing before seeing, is the natural process of creation.

There is so much to the human mind we don't understand. But, you see, if you have faith, you can do anything.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.