Marianne Moore Quotes

Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

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

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

I have no inner monologue.

It is amazing how many thoughts can race through your head in a minute.

We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.

Your life is a reflection of how you think

Mind is the cause; everything else is effect.

If he had a mind, there was something on it.

The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else maybe, from the atom to the universe, everything except itself.

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.

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.

The mind is constantly involved in thinking, in judging, in evaluating. Its whole function seems to be to keep you involved in thoughts, which are nothing but soap bubbles - or perhaps soap bubbles have more substance to them than your thoughts.

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

The mind is just like a crowd; thoughts are the individuals. And because thoughts are there continuously you think the process is substantial. Drop each individual thought and finally nothing is left. There is no mind as such, only thinking.

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

You become what you think about

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.