Max Planck Quotes

Life is but thought.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.

Reality is mind-made.

Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.

This whole world is mind's world, the product of the mind.

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

To be is to be perceived

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

The material universe exists only in the mind.

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

The physical universe that you see is all in your mind. When you turn your mind off, or become unconscious, the physical universe, for you, disappears. Then, when you awaken your consciousness, the universe reappears magically. Quite simple really - no thoughts on your part, no physical world. As Walt Whitman succinctly stated: "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You." Without your mind to process it, the universe simply disappears into nothingness.

You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it.

There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

I dream, therefore I exist.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.