6,568 Quotes About Mind

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

My only hope lay in my ability to make a metamorphic recovery, to accept in every way the nightmarish order of things so that I could continue to exist as a successful organism even without the protective nonsense of the mind and the imagination, the protective dream of having any kind of soul or self.

There's certainly no unchanging self that is carried through from one moment to the next. Its a processes; it's not a thing. You're a verb more than you're a noun (from the point of view of neuroscience).

a group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done

Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams...

Imitating someone is a conscious reminder to your subconscious that you don't exist.

The environment that most influences our health and our chances of attaining wealth is the one between our ears.

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take us all the way.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist