mental activities Quotes

Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.

Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.

There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

I work on two levels. I occupy my conscious mind with things to do, lines to draw, movements to organize, rhythms to invent. In fact, I keep myself occupied. But that allows other things to happen which I'm not controlling... the more I exercise my conscious mind, the more open the other things may find that they can come through.

Minds are simply what brains do.

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of a set of assumptions or hypotheses, preparing the way for a decision or an insight.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.