Words matter. These are the best Human Mind Quotes from famous people such as Brian Eno, Gottfried Leibniz, Robert Trout, John Desmond Bernal, Phillip E. Johnson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.
To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
The human mind and body remains the most complex, powerful machine on the planet, and we will adapt and thrive in a world of accelerating technological change.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
Science fiction encourages us to explore… all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it’s very fragile.
I’ve studied psychology. I’m fascinated by the human mind, and I love people.
Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.
I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.
The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.
The human mind has infinite capacity to rationalize, and evil characters just push that boundary a bit. Whatever they’re doing, they think it makes sense to do it, and they think they have a good reason to do it. In short, they feel justified.
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.
The perfectibility of the human mind is a theme that has captured our imagination for centuries – the notion that, with the right tools, the right approach, the right attitude, we might become better, smarter versions of ourselves.
The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish.
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human mind, destroy principles and values, and transform people into little monsters.
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is ‘important’ in the sense of being ‘worthy of being known.’
The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
Buddhism maintains that the common reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it’s craving for more.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035.
The human mind, as it turns out, is messy.
In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.
Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
I like the human mind and how messed up it is.
Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
I’m very interested in the human mind, what’s going on in there.
I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.
Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages – from Aristotle to Descartes, from Aeschylus to Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman – have thought it wise to understand oneself and one’s behavior.
