6,568 Quotes About Mind

I think he just said what was on his mind.

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human minds are non-miraculous products of evolution, then they are, in the requisite sense, artifacts, and all their powers must have an ultimately mechanical explanation. We are descended from macros and made of macros, and nothing we can do is beyond the power of huge assemblies of macros.

I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery.

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.