The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Number is different from quantity. This difference is basic for any sort of theorizing in behavioral science, any sort of imagining of what goes on between organisms or inside organisms as part of their processes of thought.
I am still very observant. I am absorbed by people and why they do what they do.
Something about the topic of consciousness makes people, like the White Queen in Through The Looking Glass, believe six impossible things before breakfast.
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.
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.
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
Without analysis, no synthesis.
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.
The brain runs its show incognito.
Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.
Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.
I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses
Most of my work is in my mind.
Now, we used to think the brain was like a computer. But now, we realize that's not true. There's no programming of the brain. There's no Windows. And we think the brain is more like a large corporation. Because think of the unconscious mind. In a corporation, you have subdivisions which operate independently of the main office.
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.
Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.
