Mind-body Distinction Quotes

I know that sounds corny. And I know you've heard it before. But it's really true: We're so much more than our bodies.

The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.

Once you become aware of your own body and its movements, you will be surprised that you are not your body. This is something of a basic principle, that if you can watch something then you are not it. You are the watcher, not the watched. You are the observer, not the observed. How can you be both?

That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body

Your body - or my body - is just kind of stupid. Like, your body doesn't know whether you're acting something because it's happening or whether you're acting it because it's in the script.

Man is not mind, he is soul.

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc have thus far failed, and if we are honest, we must confess that in science there exists no God, no immortality, no soul or mind, as distinct from the body.

The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.

It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.

I want people to realize that they aren't their bodies. They are something more than their bodies.