Quotes about Mind and Matter

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter. Votes: 4

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation. Votes: 3

Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay. Votes: 3

Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature. Votes: 3

[Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind and matter like a superhero, or an artist. Votes: 3

To promote the healing response, you must get past all the grosser levels of the body - cells, tissues, organs and systems -- and arrive at a junction point between mind and matter, the point where consciousness actually starts to have an effect. Votes: 3

Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, because every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being. Votes: 3

Zen takes the opposite tack; it holds that true reality is the fundamental unity of mind and matter, inner spirit and external world. When life is viewed in such terms, there can be no success or failure, happiness or unhappiness; life is a whole, and you are simply part of it. There are no dualities, hence there is nothing to worry about. The result is perfect tranquility. Votes: 3

Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry. Votes: 2

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Votes: 2

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter. Votes: 2

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. Votes: 2

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation. Votes: 2

I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind. Votes: 2

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be. Votes: 2

Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.' Votes: 2

I've always been a firm believer in mind over matter. If you don't believe you can achieve, your body will start to believe this and you'll be stuck. Votes: 2

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. Votes: 2

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim. Votes: 2

If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind. Votes: 2

There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter. Votes: 2

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. Votes: 2

No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything. Votes: 2

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter. Votes: 2

Space, time, matter, energy and biological life may be the result of a Source Field that is conscious and alive in its own unique way - on a scale far too vast for the finite mind to fathom. Votes: 2

One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives. Votes: 2

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible? Votes: 2

What is matter? Never mind. Votes: 0

If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Votes: 0

Age doesn't matter. An open mind does. Votes: 0

Matter is motion outside, mind is motion inside. Votes: 0

Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter. Votes: 0

Matter is plastic in the face of Mind. Votes: 0

Strength is the matter of the made up mind. Votes: 0

Strength is a matter of a made up mind. Votes: 0

Spirit over mind. Mind over matter. It's that simple Votes: 0

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter. Votes: 0

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind. Votes: 0

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. Votes: 0

Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions. Votes: 0

People who mind don't matter. But people who matter don't mind. Votes: 0

Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind. Votes: 0

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter. Votes: 0

The mind is matter in solution and matter is mind in form. Votes: 0

Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved. Votes: 0

No matter where the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere. Votes: 0

We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. Votes: 0

Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing. Votes: 0

Be yourself and the people that don't mind are the people that matter. Votes: 0

There is no matter as such"”mind is the matrix of all matter. Votes: 0

Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter. Votes: 0

The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back. Votes: 0

I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on. Votes: 0

Be yourself and you will find, who minds doesn't matter and who matters won't mind. Votes: 0

New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter. Votes: 0

Atheism is not a matter of the mind; it is a matter of the heart. Votes: 0

It doesn't really matter what you do. It is your state of mind that matters. Votes: 0

Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh. Votes: 0

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. Votes: 0

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Votes: 0

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter. Votes: 0

In his own mind, it was never a matter of courage. But courage it was. Votes: 0

I have a mind that never stops working. As a matter of fact, it torments me. Votes: 0

It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same. Votes: 0

Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does "life”, but not so mind. Votes: 0

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Votes: 0

We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength. Votes: 0

... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter. Votes: 0

Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter. Votes: 0

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. Votes: 0

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial. Votes: 0

If you don't like me, remember it's mind over matter. I don't mind, and you don't matter. Votes: 0

My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation. Votes: 0

Mind over matter. Weak minded people are easily influenced. Strong minded people you can't break their will. Votes: 0

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body. Votes: 0

When the actions of others no longer matter, then you will have succeeded within your own mind. Votes: 0

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime. Votes: 0

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind. Votes: 0

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. Votes: 0

No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind. Votes: 0

Stand by what you believe in. People who mind won't matter and people who matter won't mind it Votes: 0

Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter what you say [to me] after "even though". I never change my mind. Give it up. Votes: 0

What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force. Votes: 0

There is really no difference between matter, mind and Spirit. They are only different phases of experiencing the One. Votes: 0

Set your mind that no matter what is going on in your life, you will have a good attitude. Votes: 0

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. Votes: 0

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest! Votes: 0

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do? Votes: 0

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter. Votes: 0

Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less. Votes: 0

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything. Votes: 0

No matter what meditation technique you use, just let the mind slow down and begin to explore its internal surroundings. Votes: 0

Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. Votes: 0

Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don't even mind if you misquote me ! Votes: 0

No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind. Votes: 0

I learned that if we set our mind to things, we can accomplish almost anything no matter what the circumstances are. Votes: 0

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind. Votes: 0

The difference between my world record and many world class runners is mental fortitude. I ran believing in mind over matter. Votes: 0

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Votes: 0

There was never a question in my mind that I wanted to climb that mountain, no matter what other people said, Votes: 0

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same. Votes: 0

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team. Votes: 0

Denial is a powerful weapon. My dad taught me mind over matter. No matter how hurt I got, he didn't mind. Votes: 0

It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are. Votes: 0

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind. Votes: 0

And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind. Votes: 0

The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things. Votes: 0

God is within your mind. God is within all things. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not God. Votes: 0

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak. Votes: 0

This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter. Votes: 0

Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to. Votes: 0

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free. Votes: 0

It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind. Votes: 0

The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world. Votes: 0

There are people in the world who 1,000% will love you just the way you are. So no matter what, keep that in mind. Votes: 0

Tea was more than boiling water. There were decisions to be made and a frame of mind to develop, no matter how imperceptible. Votes: 0

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me. Votes: 0

Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult. Votes: 0

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health. Votes: 0

Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile. Votes: 0

Throughout my career, my mind rarely wandered, and I was never sidetracked by distractions, no matter what I was going through off the court. Votes: 0

A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still. Votes: 0

Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter haw badly things are going at the moment. Votes: 0

I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people. Votes: 0

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery. Votes: 0

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real. Votes: 0

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter. Votes: 0

No matter if the path is tough, and your nights are long,So long as your cause is noble and your mind is strong. Votes: 0

Your education experience, talent intelligence, and financial situations don't matter. The important thing is the direction in which you focus your unique, powerful, creative mind Votes: 0

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue. Votes: 0

He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter. Votes: 0

The thing to try and keep in mind, no matter what the day, is there is always something good, to give thanks to God in prayer. Votes: 0

Consciousness is not mind; it is the ground of all being, the ground of both matter and mind. Matter and mind are both possibilities of consciousness. Votes: 0

I'm a tek addict myself. No matter where you are, people are looking for something to tear them away from reality, challenge their state of mind. Votes: 0

Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh. Votes: 0

The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind. Votes: 0

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things. Votes: 0

Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say. Votes: 0

All SEALS in my mind are equally elite. It doesn't matter if you're SEAL Team Two, One, Six, 10, it doesn't matter. All SEALS are equally elite. Votes: 0

A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed. Votes: 0

Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have. Votes: 0

The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority. Votes: 0

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world. Votes: 0

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another? Votes: 0

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Votes: 0

O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss. Votes: 0

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise. Votes: 0

We have to get out of the mind-set of saying, "No matter how hard we try, we will have accidents," and into "We will not have accidents." Votes: 0

He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction. Votes: 0

Does it matter whether you hate yourself? At least love your eyes that can see, your mind that can hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Votes: 0

Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion, an occasion of chemical joy. Votes: 0

Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving. Votes: 0

[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter. Votes: 0

Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time. Votes: 0

Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative". Votes: 0

No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are not able to fulfill your destiny. Votes: 0

I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters. Votes: 0

India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India. Votes: 0

The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse. Votes: 0

The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what. Votes: 0

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain. Votes: 0

The reason I became such a successful athlete was my mind was saying that no matter who you put up against me, I am better, I am the best. Votes: 0

You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind. Votes: 0

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely. Votes: 0

You have everything you need. A miraculous body, a phenomenal brain, and a vast powerful subconscious mind. Now it's just a matter of focusing them in the right direction Votes: 0

The boundaries we erect to divide heaven from earth, mind from matter, real from unreal are mere conveniences. Having made the boundaries, we can unmake them just as easily. Votes: 0

there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with. Votes: 0

An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea. Votes: 0

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another. Votes: 0