Jacques Ellul Quotes

Much has been written about the life of the mind.

I think I was just constantly seeking mental stimulation from anything I could get.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

A lot of stuff people do these days is not mentally challenging.

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

I like the cerebral process.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

I have a mind that always wants to be busy.

I need to be mentally stimulated.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little.

I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.

I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film.

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.