Quotations by Theme
Mind - Body
"Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think."
A. E. Housman, 1859-1936
"Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperament?"
Aeschylus, 525-456 BCE
"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls."
Aeschylus, 525-456 BCE
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
Agatha Christie, 1890-1976
"Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious."
Alan Moore,
"Text-messaging or The Sun, these are perfect Orwellian ways of limiting the vocabulary and thus limiting the consciousness."
Alan Moore, 1953-
"What we really are is, first of all, the whole of our body."
Alan Watts, 1915-1973
"Underneath the superficial self, which pays attention to this and that, there is another self more really us than I."
Alan Watts, 1915-1973
"People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives."
Albert Bandura, 1925-
"Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience."
Albert Bandura, 1925-
"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
"I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness."
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
"We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead."
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
"To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred."
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
"It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison."
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behaviour therapist."
Albert Ellis, 1913
"A gramme is better than a damn./A slogan encouraging people not to dwell on gloomy thoughts, but to obliterate them with drugs."
Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963
"Instinct is untaught ability."
Alexander Bain, 1818-1903
"Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after."
Alexander Pope, 1688-1744
"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale."
Alexander Pope,
"The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in."
Alfred Edward Housman, 1859-1936
"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892
"Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on."
Alice Duer Miller, 1874-1942
"Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings."
Alice Duer Miller,
"The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood."
Alice Meynell, 1847-1922
"Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind."
Alice Meynell,
"Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment."
ALVIN TOFFLER,
"Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants [sic] from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane."
Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914
"We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds."
Anais Nin, 1903-1977
"Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people."
Andre Dubus, 1936-1999
"When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head."
Andrei Platonov, 1899-1951
"First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker."
Andrew Bernstein,
"Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating."
Andrew Cohen,
"I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair."
Andrew Motion,
"In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil."
Anna Jameson, 1794-1860
"And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world."
Anne Frank,
"Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project."
Anne Grant, 1755-1838
"Anger is a natural response when something you value is taken away from you. You may feel alone, isolated or not understood."
Anne Grant,
"There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library."
Anthony Hecht, 1923-2004
"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."
Archibald MacLeish,
"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."
Archibald MacLeish, 1892-1982
"High thoughts must have high language."
Aristophanes, 446-388 BCE
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."
Aristotle,
"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
Aristotle,
"The whole is more than the sum of its parts."
Aristotle,
"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."
Aristotle,
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
Aristotle,
"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
Aristotle,
"Anyone can become angry, that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not easy."
Aristotle, 384-322 BCE
"Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions."
Aristotle, 384 BC-322BC
"The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide."
Aristotle,
"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930
"Where there is no imagination there is no horror."
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930
"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will."
Arthur Rimbaud,
"Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control."
Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860
"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
Arthur Schopenhauer,
"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
Arthur Schopenhauer,
"I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell."
Audre Lorde,
"Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength."
August Wilson, 1945-2005
"It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."
Aung San Suu Kyi,
"Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art."
Austin O'Malley,
"If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.... The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind."
Ayn Rand,
"An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something."
Ayn Rand, 1905-1982
"Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle."
Balthus, 1908-2001
"No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning."
Barbara de Angelis,
"Sexual ecstasy usually arises among dyads, or groups of two, but the ritual ecstasy of "primitives" emerged within groups generally composed of thirty or more participants. Thanks to psychology and the psychological concerns of Western culture generally, we have a rich language for describing the emotions drawing one person to another--from the most fleeting sexual attraction, to ego-dissolving love, all the way to the destructive force of obsession. What we lack is any way of describing and understanding the "love" that may exist among dozens of people at a time; and it is this kind of love that is expressed in ecstatic ritual."
Barbara Ehrenreich,
"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."
Baruch Spinoza,
"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
Baruch Spinoza,
"True virtue is life under the direction of reason."
Baruch Spinoza, 1632-1677
"I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused."
Baruch Spinoza,
"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
Baruch Spinoza,
"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."
Baruch Spinoza,
"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
Baruch Spinoza,
"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."
Baruch Spinoza,
"Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself."
Baruch Spinoza,
"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."
Baruch Spinoza,
"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
Baruch Spinoza,
"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
Baruch Spinoza,
"None are so empty as those who are full of themselves"
Benjamin Whichcote, 1609-1683
"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.... This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me."
Bertrand Russell,
"Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do."
Bertrand Russell,
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
Bertrand Russell,
"The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts -- the less you know the hotter you get."
Bertrand Russell,
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
Bertrand Russell,
"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."
Bertrand Russell,
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Fear is the main source of superstition, . . .. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I wish to preach "the will to doubt". What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite."
Bertrand Russell,
"Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts. Science can help us to get over this craven fear in which mankind has lived for so many generations. Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead of the sort of place that the churches in all these centuries have made it."
Bertrand Russell,
"Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free."
Bhagavad Gita,
"To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi). Or, If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?"
Bishop George Berkeley, 1685 – 1753
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind."
Bob Marley, 1945-1981
"Once the anchor of reason has been cut, one's craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler."
Brand Blanshard, 1892-1987
"At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self."
Brendan Francis,
"Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."
C. S. Lewis, 1889-1963
"Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant."
Caecilius Statius, 220-168 BCE
"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself ... We know nothing of man, far too little. His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil."
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic."
Cesare Pavese, 1908-1950
"We do not remember days, we remember moments.The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."
Cesare Pavese,
"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."
Cesare Pavese,
"Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds."
Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832
"Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others."
Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832
"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."
Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832
"Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves."
Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832
"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."
Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832
"It can't be Nature, for it is not sense."
Charles Churchill,
"The less men think, the more they talk."
Charles de Montesquieu, 1689-1755
"Subdue you appetites my dears and you've conquered human nature."
Charles Dickens, 1812-1870
"With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other."
Charles Dickens, 1812-1870
"We need never be ashamed of our tears."
Charles Dickens, 1812-1870
"Whatever your occupation may be and however crowded our hours with affairs, do not fail to secure at least a few minutes every day for refreshment of your inner life with a bit of poetry."
Charles Elliot Norton, 1827-1908
"Phenomena of a man alone on a desert island can be explained in terms of "mass psychology" - inasmuch as the mind of no man is a unit, but is a community of mental states that influence one another."
Charles Fort, 1874-1932
"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
Charles Horton Cooley,
"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."
Charles Horton Cooley, 1866-1928
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."
Charles Mackay, 1814-1889
"To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
"The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours."
Chauncey Wright,
"The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form."
Chauncey Wright,
"Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy."
Chogyam Trungpa,
"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself."
Christian Nestell Bovee, 1820-1904
"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."
Christian Nestell Bovee,
"The wise are instructed by reason, ordinary minds by experience, the stupid, by necessity, and brutes by instinct."
Cicero, 106-43 BCE
"A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind."
Clarence Seward Darrow,
"By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act."
Claude Adrien Helvetius, 1715-1771
"If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything."
Claude McKay, 1889-1948
"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it."
Colin Wilson, 1931-
"Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now; the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart."
Confucius, 551-479 BCE
"Everything (everyone) has it's beauty but not everyone sees it."
Confucius, 551-479 BCE
"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance."
Confucius, 551-479 BCE
"The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature."
Corliss Lamont,
"True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion."
Corliss Lamont, 1902-1995
"If we think that this search for God is a vain search, and that there is no reality to be discovered, ... then the history of religion becomes a study of the aberrations of the human mind."
Cyril Bailey,
"The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave."
Cyril Vernon Connolly,
"We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self."
Cyril Vernon Connolly,
"If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are -- like fishes not meant to swim."
Cyril Vernon Connolly, 1903-1974
"The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history."
Czeslaw Milosz, 1911-2004
"This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them."
D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving."
Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955
"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."
Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955
"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955
"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude."
Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955
"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion."
Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955
"You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."
Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955
"Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment."
Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955
"The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!"
Daniel Dennett, 1942-
"The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain"
Daniel Goleman, 1946-
"The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication."
Daniel Goleman, 1946-
"When people are feeling very upbeat, energized, happy, optimistic, there is a lot of activity in the left pre-frontal cortex."
Daniel Goleman, 1946-
"So the ability to pause and to not act on that first impulse has become a crucial emotional skill in modern lives."
Daniel Goleman, 1946-
"The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response."
Daniel Goleman, 1946-
"If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far."
Daniel Goleman, 1946-
"Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that."
David Chalmers, 1966-
"Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes"
David Chalmers, 1966-
"My work comes from inner disturbances, from seeing injustices and accidents and how they affect people's lives in a tragic way."
David Guterson, 1956-
"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together."
David Hare, 1947-
"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."
David Hume, 1711-1776
"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'."
David Hume, 1711-1776
"It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom."
David Hume, 1711-1776
"Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure."
David Viscott, 1938-1996
"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers."
Deepak Chopra,
"Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based."
Deepak Chopra,
"To think is to practice brain chemistry."
Deepak Chopra, 1946-
"There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude, which rests on everything and finds nothing to calm it. They seek solitude; they weep; the silence to be found in cloister attracts them: the image of peace that seems to reign in religious houses seduces them. They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is precisely when nature is inciting them that they embrace a fashion of life contrary to nature's wish."
Denis Diderot,
"The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval."
Denis Waitley,
"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."
Denis Waitley,
"The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives."
Denis Waitley,
"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself."
Derek Walcott, 1930-
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."
Desiderius Erasmus,
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
Desiderius Erasmus, 1466-1536
"There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses."
Diane Ackerman, 1948-
"Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight."
Diane Ackerman, 1948-
"I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child."
Dick Francis, 1920-
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