When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

I’m interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I’ve already made up my mind that I have the victory.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud’s own writing.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.