Antoinette Brown Blackwell Quotes

I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

Consciousness is the smallest player in the operations of the brain.

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

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

To be and to think are one and the same for us.

I'm very interested in the human mind, what's going on in there.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

the brain, the mind, and all the things that happen inside it, it's a very erogenous zone.

The brain runs its show incognito.

Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.

MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

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

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.

I would be so curious to wire my brain up and see what's occurring when I act, because a performance is such a heightened state. I've always found that with doing theatre especially. It's so hard to come down.

Think about the brain as the densest concentration of youness. It's the peak of the mountain, but not the whole mountain.