Philosophy Of Mind Quotes

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Baruch Spinoza
“The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body”
Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

Baruch Spinoza
“The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things”
Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
“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.”
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
“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…”
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
“…if geometry were as much opposed to our passions and present interests as is ethics, we should contest it and violate I but little less, notwithstanding all the demonstrations of Euclid and Archimedes…”
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
“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.”
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding

Abhijit Naskar
“Water and a bubble on it are one and the same. The bubble has its birth in the water, floats on it, and is ultimately resolved into it. Likewise, your consciousness is born in your brain, goes through various states in your lifetime and ultimately resolves into the brain.”
Abhijit Naskar, Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality

Baruch Spinoza
“Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.”
Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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

“Each stage of your life
is like petals of a flower...
unfolding and opening until it comes to full bloom...You will blossom and then you die...But know that this is not your ending.”
Summerlyn Guthrie

“In most sciences, there are few findings more prized than a counterintuitive result. It shows something surprising and forces us to reconsider our often tacit assumptions. In philosophy of mind, a counterintuitive “result” (e.g., a mind-boggling implication of somebody’s “theory” of perception, memory, consciousness, or whatever) is typically taken as tantamount to a refutation. This affection for one’s current intuitions, sometimes amounting (as we saw in the previous chapter) to a refusal even to consider alternative perspectives, installs deep conservatism in the methods of philosophers. Conservatism can be a good thing, but only if it is acknowledged. By all means, let’s not abandon perfectly good and familiar intuitions without a fight, but let’s recognize that the intuitions that are initially used to frame the issues may not live to settle the issues.”
Daniel Dennett

Abhijit Naskar
“Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly.”
Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?

Abhijit Naskar
“You are modern humans of the civilized world. And modern humans rise beyond all laws and superstitions of the society. They help their fellow beings to rise from the ashes of ignorance, illusion and fear.”
Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

Abhijit Naskar
“It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world.”
Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

Abhijit Naskar
“Quantum Mechanics can indeed be extremely complex to grasp, but when we talk about Consciousness, with decades of rigorous studies on the human brain we have realized that actually, there is no other phenomenon in the entire universe that is simpler than the majestic phenomenon of Consciousness.
'If you think you have a solution to the problem of consciousness, you haven’t understood the problem.' This age-old metaphysical and philosophical argument is strictly not true. If you are sufficiently clear-sighted enough, you can realize the problem itself was a matter of the past when we didn’t have insight into the neurological basis of consciousness. And today it is common knowledge in Neuroscience that, all mesmerizing features of the Human Mind, including the glorious Human Consciousness, are born from the tiny specks of jelly inside your head.”
Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?

George Makari
“Unlike any other empirical object in Nature, the mind's presence is immediately apparent to itself, but opaque to all external observers.”
George Makari, Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind

“The theories we find untrue, are those we cannot accept.”
Jacques Cantin

Aldous Huxley
“The fact that extremely diversified phenomena are explained in terms of laws having the same form or pattern gives us information... about the structure of the various levels of reality with which the mind deals; for presumably the pattern of a hypothesis must have some correspondence, if it works, with the pattern of the phenomena which it explains.”
Aldous Huxley, Letters of Aldous Huxley;

“Be gentle with others
For many hurt though you see it not
Some wounds are invisible yet deep

KhoiSan Book of Wisdom”
rassool jibraeel snyman

Eraldo Banovac
“Inner peace comes from a clear conscience.”
Eraldo Banovac

Abhijit Naskar
“Scientific understanding of nature, doesn't make a person religious or atheist. I​t makes a person liberated of all labels. Moreover it makes a person kind and understanding.”
Abhijit Naskar

Abhijit Naskar
“It is an utter insult towards the fascinating neurons of your cerebral cortex, to believe anybody’s words blindly, even if that person is a Scientist or a Philosopher. So, I urge to you, that you must exercise your own reasoning and judgment (that’s what your cerebral cortex is for; to be specific the frontal lobes) at all times.”
Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience