Sigmund Freud Quotes

The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

When we choose only love as the director of our mind we can experience the power and miracle of love.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. In this sense the most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing.

If I can muster up any allure in my life, at this stage, I wouldn't mind doing that.

There are three kinds of minds: first those that attain insight and understanding of things by their own means, then those that recognize what is right when others explain it to them, and finally those that are capable of neither one nor the other.

The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.

Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.

A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.

He had her in his heart, but not always in his mind.

We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.

Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and minds, so few places where something can't grow on top of whatever happened to us before, and this is love too.

Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.

Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer.

There wasn't a second that passed when you weren't on my mind. You own me, Eva. Wherever I am, whatever I'm doing, I belong to you.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.

Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'

The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence.

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.