Erwin Schrodinger Quotes

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

To separate mind from body doesn't make any sense.

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.

There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.

Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts

The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things.

Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?

The body cannot be the soul.

The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.

To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism.

Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.

I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.

Mind does dominate body. We are superior to the house in which we dwell.

I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.

I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.

The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.

One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.

It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.

It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one.

The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.