David Mitchell Quotes

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

I want to know how the mind works.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Wherever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.

The most important dreams occur while people are fully awake.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.

The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.

Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Memory is like the Moon, it hath its new, its full and its wane.

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

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.

When you understand how the mind-brain functions together, you know that faith, which is believing before seeing, is the natural process of creation.

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.