Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.

The brain runs its show incognito.

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds think. How our will is related to our thoughts. How our thoughts are related to our molecules.

It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.

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

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.

The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got.

Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

The mind is an enchanting thing.

Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.