Aristotle Quotes

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

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

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

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

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

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.

In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena.

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

There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

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.

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

First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is not less an integral part of man himself, than the hand, and foot, and eyes, are portions of the whole animal.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

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.

Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions.