The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor — not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies “out there” in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.
Stephen Jay GouldTags: nature mind logic metaphor
The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinTags: science mind universe physics
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
Ben GoldacreTags: humor science mind medicine
Exceed not thy actions, but limit not thy mind.
Gary Davis... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.
John PiperTags: truth god faith mind intellect objectivity
We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain, the future as well as the past would be present to its eyes. The perfection that the human mind has been able to give to astronomy affords but a feeble outline of such an intelligence.
Pierre-Simon LaplaceTags: science intelligence certainty past present determinism free-will nature time mind universe naturalism space physics comprehension eyes perfection astronomy omniscience data human-mind motion analysis formula lack-of-free-will
A veiled Mind is more enticing than all the nude men lining up the Seine, during Summer.
AainaA-RidtzTags: consciousness mind nude
there're times when i suspect that the mind has a mind of its own. it shows us pictures. pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. this mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice
David MitchellTags: mind
. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .
Charles DickensTags: mind seclusion brooding solitary diseased perverse perverted reverse
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
BodhidharmaTags: buddhism zen mind enlightenment
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