mind Quotes

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.