Leonard Cohen Quotes

I love the human mind.

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.

Your mind is a tool you can choose to use any way you wish.

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.

Think! You can think any think that you wish.

Mind is the great lever of all things.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a 'language acquisition device,' an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.

A man without words is a man without thought.

What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind

My mind to me an empire is.

I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle that they need to overcome or get away from. With awareness, an inner sense of spaciousness arises that enables you to look at your own mind, which is to say the human mind, with a certain degree of detachment.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

I think the power of the mind is amazing, and we've barely scratched the surface of what it can do.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.

Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.