Plato Quotes

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.

The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

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.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

To live is to think.

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.

We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds think. How our will is related to our thoughts. How our thoughts are related to our molecules.

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

Space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts. Like a large condominium. Occasionally I think about the one Space and the one Thought, but usually I don't. Usually I think about my condominium.

I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that we live in order to think, but the opposite isn't true either—that we think in order to live. I believe, contrary to Descartes, that we sometimes think in order not to be. Staring into space might unintentionally have the opposite effect.

Why, the little Voice inside my head, of course. You mean you don't have one? I did.

Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.

The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

At the level of the mind, you are part of the human mind; at the level of the brain you are part of the global brain. This is a perfect example of becoming the change that you want to see.

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

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.