Isaac Asimov Quotes

Every passion, every emotion, has its effect upon the mind. Every change of mind, however slight, has its effect upon the body.

Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance than our bodies) will not tolerate.

Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.

I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow.

Treating the body is really about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic - every bit of it. No exceptions.

The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one

When the subconscious mind must chose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win.

...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.

Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental in-harmony.

Where the mind goes the body will follow.

I have to get up the fitness level, sing a lot, practice, get in the mood, and generally do lots of rehearsal. Get your body and mind ready.

According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self.

It has been said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they are more lasting than those of the body; but I do not remember to have heard it said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they make those of the body more lasting.

The manner of your death is not your choosing. But how you prepare for death is

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.