89 Quotes About Philosophy-of-mind

Denken ist eine Funktion des Gehirns wie Gehen eine Funktion der Beine. Sowenig nun die Anatomie der Beine mit der Frage: was heißt gehen, sowenig hat die Anatomie des Gehirns mit der Frage zu tun, was heißt Denken.

Are ordinary people really populations of interests rather than something more solid? It’s disturbing to think of yourself as so fluid, so potentially unstable, held together only by the shifting influence of available rewards. It’s like being told that atoms are mostly empty and wondering how they can bear weight. Yet the bargaining of interests in a society can produce highly stable institutions; perhaps that’s also true of the internal interests created by a person’s rewards.

…every feeling is the perception of a truth...

The mind leans on [innate] principles every moment, but it does not come so easily to distinguish them and to represent them distinctly and separately, because that demands great attention to its acts, and the majority of people, little accustomed to think, has little of it.

The mind is not only capable of knowing [innate ideas], but further of finding them in itself; and if it had only the simple capacity to receive knowledge…it would not be the source of necessary truths…

For the [innate] general principles enter into our thoughts, of which they form the soul and the connection. They are as necessary thereto as the muscles and sinews are for walking, although we do not at all think of them.

I do not want to sound cynical or condescending, but your lips are moving, your mind unbending.

إنّ الحِرص على مخالفة الآخر مثل الحِرص على تقليده، كلاهما تبعيّة.

There are people who can not see with their physical eyes, but they see through the mind.Such people can see the live and dead forms in all their colors, movements and strength.They surpass all boundaries, rules, space and time.They live in the eternity of the living energies that come from an empty and pure space, from which wonders occur. If these people could see with their physical eyes too‒they would have a divine nature...