Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.

To live is to think.

At times I think and at times I am.

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.

I desire therefore I exist.

The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action.

Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.

I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses

The concept of a divine, or 'Christ'-mind, is the idea that, at our core, we are not just identical, but actually the same being.

Language is the light of the mind

There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.

Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience.

I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions.

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.