Philosopher Quotes on the Mind

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

The universe is flux, life is opinion.

“Confine yourself to the present.”

VII, 29

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

ἐν ὀλιγίστοις κεῖται τὸ εὐδαιμόνως βιῶσαι | VII, 67

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”

Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

VII, 11.

“Philosophy begins in wonder.”

155d, The Dialogues of Plato , Volume 3, 1871, p. 377

“Some say that the body is the " tomb " of the soul , their notion being that the soul is buried in the present life ; and again, because by its means the soul gives any signs which it gives, it is for this reason also properly called "sign". But I think it most likely that the Orphic poets gave this name, with the idea that the soul is undergoing punishment for something; they think it has the body as an enclosure to keep it safe, like a prison, and this is, as the name itself denotes, the "safe" for the soul, until the penalty is paid, and not even a letter needs to be changed.”

400b–c

“Perception and knowledge could never be the same.”

186e

“Neither perception nor true opinion, nor reason or explanation combined with true opinion could be knowledge… Then our art of midwifery declare to us that all the offspring that have been born are mere wind-eggs and not worth rearing… and if you remain barren, you will be less harsh and gentler to your associates, for you will have the wisdom not to think you know that which you do not know.”

210a-c

“I do see one large and grievous kind of ignorance, separate from the rest, and as weighty as all the other parts put together. Thinking that one knows a thing when one does not know it. Through this, I believe, all the mistakes of the mind are caused in all of us.”

229c

“Purity of heart is to will one thing.”

The two guides call out to a man early and late. And yet, no, for when remorse calls to a man it is always late. The call to find the way again by seeking out God in the confession of sins is always at the eleventh hour. Whether you are young or old, whether you have sinned much or little, whether you have offended much or neglected much, the guilt makes this call come at the eleventh hour. The in

“The reason I cannot really say that I positively enjoy nature is that I do not quite realize what it is that I enjoy. A work of art, on the other hand, I can grasp. I can — if I may put it this way — find that Archimedian point, and as soon as I have found it, everything is readily clear for me. Then I am able to pursue this one main idea and see how all the details serve to illuminate it.”

Journals of Søren Kierkegaard 1A 8, 1834

“Journal entry, Gilleleie (1 August 1835) Journals 1A; this is considered to be one of the earliest statements of existentialist thought.”

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Attributed to Soren Kierkegaard:

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

Attributed to Soren Kierkegaard:

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”

“The mind of sentient beings as it is in itself has neither marks nor nature. It is like the ocean, like space. Since it is like space, there are no marks that are not subsumed within it. How could it contain a direction such as east or west? Since it is like the ocean, there is no nature that is preserved.”

佛說阿彌陀經疏 Bulseol Amitagyeong so (prolegomenon to the Commentary on the Amitabha Sutra Spoken by the Buddha ) | Translated by A. Charles Muller

“The mind of sentient beings as it is in itself has neither marks nor nature. It is like the ocean, like space. Since it is like space, there are no marks that are not subsumed within it. How could it contain a direction such as east or west? Since it is like the ocean, there is no nature that is preserved.”

佛說阿彌陀經疏 Bulseol Amitagyeong so (prolegomenon to the Commentary on the Amitabha Sutra Spoken by the Buddha ) | Translated by A. Charles Muller

Attributed to Wonhyo:

“All things are made by the mind alone; outside the mind there is nothing to be sought.”

Attributed to Wonhyo:

“The Buddha and the ordinary mind are not two; only the recognition of this is two.”

Attributed to Wonhyo:

“What you take for a pure spring in the dark may be a skull in the morning; the spring is in your mind.”

“I think, therefore I am.”

Je pense, donc je suis.

“M. Desargues puts me under obligations on account of the pains that it has pleased him to have in me, in that he shows that he is sorry that I do not wish to study more in geometry, but I have resolved to quit only abstract geometry, that is to say, the consideration of questions which serve only to exercise the mind , and this, in order to study another kind of geometry, which has for its object the explanation of the phenomena of nature... You know that all my physics is nothing else than geometry.”

Letter to Marin Mersenne (July 27, 1638) as quoted by Florian Cajori , A History of Mathematics (1893) letter dated in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes Vol. 3, The Correspondence (1991) ed. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, Dugald Murdoch

Attributed to Rene Descartes:

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

Attributed to Rene Descartes:

“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.”

Attributed to Rene Descartes:

“Cogito, ergo sum.”

“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”

A History of Western Philosophy, 1945

“Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.”

Aphorism (commonly attributed)

“If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinise it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it.”

Ch. VI: International relations, p. 97

“I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.”

Greek Exercises (1888); at the age of fifteen, Russell used to write down his reflections in this book, for fear that his people should find out what he was thinking.

“Greek Exercises (1888); at the age of fifteen, Russell used to write down his reflections in this book, for fear that his people should find out what he was thinking.”

I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.

“Hell is other people.”

Alors, c'est ça l'enfer. Je n'aurais jamais cru... vous vous rappelez: le soufre, le bûcher, le gril... ah! Quelle plaisanterie. Pas besoin de gril, l'enfer, c'est les autres.

“Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom .”

L'imagination ( Imagination: A Psychological Critique ) (1936)

“L'âge de raison ( The Age of Reason ) (1945)”

He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.

“L'âge de raison ( The Age of Reason ) (1945)”

He yawned. He had finished the day and he had also finished with his youth. Various well-bred moralities had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism , smiling tolerance , resignation , common sense stoicism - all the aids whereby a man may savour, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life.

Attributed to Jean-Paul Sartre:

“Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.”

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

Variant translations: | The limits of my language stand for the limits of my world. | The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. | Original German: Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt.

“If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.”

Pt II, p. 223 of the 1968 English edition

“Don't think, but look!”

§ 66

“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”

Die Philosophie ist ein Kampf gegen die Verhexung unsres Verstandes durch die Mittel unserer Sprache.

“It seems to me as good as certain that we cannot get the upper hand against England . The English — the best race in the world — cannot lose! We, however, can lose and shall lose, if not this year then next year. The thought that our race is going to be beaten depresses me terribly, because I am completely German .”

Writing about the eventual outcome of World War I, in which he was a volunteer in the Austro-Hungarian army (25 October 1914), as quoted in The First World War (2004) by Martin Gilbert , p. 104

“Language is the house of Being.”

Die Sprache ist das Haus des Seins.

“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”

Das Bedenklichste in unserer bedenklichen Zeit ist, dass wir noch nicht denken.

Attributed to Martin Heidegger:

“We never come to thoughts. They come to us.”

Attributed to Martin Heidegger:

“Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the most stiff-necked adversary of thought.”

Attributed to Martin Heidegger:

“Being-toward-death is essentially anxiety.”

“Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world; and this is not a woman's province in a married state. Her sphere of action is not large, and if she is not taught to look into her own heart, how trivial are her occupations and pursuits! What little arts engross and narrow her mind!”

Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787), "Matrimony", p. 100

“Original Stories from Real Life; with Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness (1788; 1791)”

Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason ; but, as this task requires more judgment than generally falls to the lot of parents, substitutes must be sought for, and medicines given, when regimen would have answered the purpose much better. I believe those who examine their own minds, will readily agree with me, that reason, with difficulty, conquers settled hab

“I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There is certainly a great defect in my mind — my wayward heart creates its own misery — Why I am made thus I cannot tell; and, till I can form some idea of the whole of my existence, I must be content to weep and dance like a child — long for a toy, and be tired of it as soon as I get it.”

Undated letter to Joseph Johnson (October? 1792), published in The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft (2004), edited by Janet Todd , p. 206.

Attributed to Mary Wollstonecraft:

“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.”

Attributed to Mary Wollstonecraft:

“The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force.”

“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.”

Truth, Power, Self : An Interview with Michel Foucault (25 October 1982)

“The soul is the prison of the body.”

[L]'âme, prison du corps.

“Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought as a fish exists in water; that is, it ceases to breathe anywhere else.”

As quoted by David Macey , The lives of Michel Foucault (1993) p. 177. Citing 'Les Intellectuels et le Pouvoir', Le'Arc 49, 1972, pp. 3-10. Discussion with Gilles Deleuze, (4 March 1972). Reprinted, Le Nouvel Observateur , (8 May 1972) pp. 68-70. Tr. 'Intellectuals and Power', Language, Counter-Memory, Practice , pp. 205-17.

“As quoted by David Macey , The lives of Michel Foucault (1993) p. 177. Citing 'Les Intellectuels et le Pouvoir', Le'Arc 49, 1972, pp. 3-10. Discussion with Gilles Deleuze, (4 March 1972). Reprinted, Le Nouvel Observateur , (8 May 1972) pp. 68-70. Tr. 'Intellectuals and Power', Language, Counter-Memory, Practice , pp. 205-17.”

Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought as a fish exists in water; that is, it ceases to breathe anywhere else.

Attributed to Michel Foucault:

“There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine.”

“To be is to be perceived.”

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, §3

“Few men think, yet all will have opinions.”

Philonous to Hylas. The Second Dialogue. This appears in a passage first added in the third edition, (1734)

Attributed to George Berkeley:

“All the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind.”

Attributed to George Berkeley:

“It is impossible that I should conceive in my thoughts any sensible thing or object distinct from the sensation or perception of it.”

Attributed to George Berkeley:

“Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, I am lost.”

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”

The Quest for Certainty (1929), Ch. XI

“While they denounce as subversive anarchy signs of independent thought, of thinking for themselves on the part of others lest such thought disturb the conditions by which they profit, they think quite literally for themselves, that is of themselves.”

Human Nature and Conduct (1921) Part 1 Section IV.

Attributed to John Dewey:

“We do not learn from experience; we learn from reflecting on experience.”

Attributed to John Dewey:

“The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.”

Attributed to John Dewey:

“To be playful and serious at the same time is possible, and it defines the ideal mental condition.”

“Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.”

Signs , trans. R. McCleary (Evanston: 1964), p. 203

“By becoming the pure subject who knows the world objectively, man ultimately realizes that absolute consciousness with respect to which the body and individual existence are no longer anything but objects; death is deprived of meaning. Reduced to the status of object of consciousness, the body could not be conceived as an intermediary between "things" and the consciousness which knows them.”

p. 204

“Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And his last book offers a theory of expressiveness which makes of expression not “a faithful image of an already realized interior being, but the very means by which it is realized.”

p. 8

Attributed to Maurice Merleau-Ponty:

“Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning.”

Attributed to Maurice Merleau-Ponty:

“The body is the vehicle of being in the world.”

“Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”

In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

Ch. 22

“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”

Out of my experience, such as it is (and it is limited enough) one fixed conclusion dogmatically emerges, and that is this, that we with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves. ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean'

“I think that yesterday was a crisis in my life. I finished the first part of Renouvier's second Essais and see no reason why his definition of free will—"the sustaining of a thought because I choose to when I might have other thoughts"—need be the definition of an illusion. At any rate, I will assume for the present—until next year—that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.”

Diary entry (April 30, 1870) as quoted in Ralph Barton Perry, The Thought and Character of William James , vol. 1, p. 323; Letters of William James , vol. I, p. 147.

“Diary entry (April 30, 1870) as quoted in Ralph Barton Perry, The Thought and Character of William James , vol. 1, p. 323; Letters of William James , vol. I, p. 147.”

I think that yesterday was a crisis in my life. I finished the first part of Renouvier's second Essais and see no reason why his definition of free will—"the sustaining of a thought because I choose to when I might have other thoughts"—need be the definition of an illusion. At any rate, I will assume for the present—until next year—that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to beli

Attributed to Blaise Pascal:

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

Attributed to Blaise Pascal:

“The heart has its reasons, which reason knows nothing of.”

Attributed to Blaise Pascal:

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

Attributed to Blaise Pascal:

“We know the truth not only by reason but also by the heart.”

Attributed to Blaise Pascal:

“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”

“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”

Je dirais qu'il faut agir en homme de pensée et penser en homme d'action.

“I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind , however simple , that does not change every moment .”

An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903), translated by T. E. Hulme . New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912, p. 44

“A philosopher worthy of the name has never said more than a single thing: and even then it is something he has tried to say, rather than actually said. And he has said only one thing because he has seen only one point: and at that it was not so much a vision as a contact... "L’intuition philosophique (Philosophical Intuition)" (10 April 1911); translated by Mabelle L. Andison in: Henri Bergson, The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics , Courier Dover Publications, 2012, p. 91”

Un philosophe digne de ce nom n'a jamais dit qu'une seule chose : encore a-t-il plutôt cherché à la dire qu'il ne l'a dite véritablement. Et il n'a dit qu'une seule chose parce qu'il n'a su qu'un seul point : encore fut-ce moins une vision qu'un contact...

“The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic in that it has been designed for works of lofty inspiration; international in that it is awarded after the production of different countries has been minutely studied and the intellectual balance sheet of the whole world has been drawn up. Free from all other considerations and ignoring any but intellectual values, the judges have deliberately taken their place in what the philosophers have called a community of the mind.”

In a letter accepting the 1927 Nobel Prize in literature , read by the French minister, Armand Bernard.

Attributed to Henri Bergson:

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

As quoted in The Eden Express (1975) by Mark Vonnegut, p. 208

“You are the world.”

Part V, Ch. 3 : 3rd Public Talk Madras 14th January 1968 "The Sacred

“Hold back your mind from pride , for pride comes only from ignorance . The man who does not know thinks that he is great, that he has done this or that great thing; the wise man knows that only God is great , that all good work is done by God alone.”

§ III

Attributed to Jiddu Krishnamurti:

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”

Attributed to Jiddu Krishnamurti:

“The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.”

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

Original: L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité . | From an April 13, 1942 letter to poet Joë Bousquet , published in their collected correspondence ( Correspondance [Lausanne: Editions l'Age d'Homme, 1982], p. 18).

“Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.”

The Need for Roots (1949), p. 292

Attributed to Simone Weil:

“The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.”

Attributed to Simone Weil:

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”

Attributed to Simone Weil:

“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”

“Knowledge of the Self is the only means to liberation.”

p. 4: Quote nr. 2.

“One should become aware of oneself, indivisible, and perfect; free from identification with all things transient, such as one’s body, functions, mind, and the sense of being the doer, for all these are the product of ignorance.”

p4

Attributed to Adi Shankara:

“Brahman alone is real; the world is illusory; the individual self is non-different from Brahman.”

Attributed to Adi Shankara:

“The mind alone is the cause of bondage and liberation for human beings.”

Attributed to Adi Shankara:

“Pleasure and pain are mere ideas, transient and unreal; renounce them.”

“Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.”

As quoted in Root (2001) [ specific citation needed ]

“We may sometimes ignore the claims of reason and rest satisfied, though usually unconsciously, with assertions which are conflicting when critically examined, but we cannot disregard by any means those of the religious sentiment which finds satisfaction only in the very fact of things. If it ever harbored some flagrant contradiction in the name of faith, it was because its ever-pressing demands had to be met with even at the expense of reason.”

Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro (1907). "The Dharmakâya" . Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism . pp. 217–218.

“Deliverance or enlightenment, therefore, consists of making every sentient being open his mental eye to this fact. It is not his ego-soul that makes him think, feel, desire, or aspire, but the Dharmakaya itself in the form of Bodhicitta or “wisdom-heart” which constitutes his ethical and religious being. Abandon the thought of egoism, and return to the universal source of love and wisdom, and we are released from the bond of evil karma, we are enlightened as to the reason of existence, we are Buddhas.”

p 8

“The ranges of the Himalayas may stir in us the feeling of sublime awe; the waves of the Pacific may suggest something of infinity. But when one’s mind is poetically or mystically or religiously opened, one feels as Basho did that even in every blade of wild grass there is something really transcending all venal, base human feelings, which lifts one to a realm equal in its splendor to that of the Pure Land.”

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Attributed to D. T. Suzuki:

“Zen, in its essence, is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being.”

“Aristotle established the classical definition of man, according to which man is the living being who has logos . In the tradition of the West, this definition became canonical in a form which stated that man is the animal rationale , the rational being, distinguished from all other animals by his capacity for thought. Thus it rendered the Greek word logos as reason or thought. In truth, however, the primary meaning of this word is language. ... The word logos means not only thought and language, but also concept and law.”

Man and Language (1966)

“The hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognizes that in the age of science philosophy's claim of superiority has something chimerical and unreal about it. But though the will of man is more than ever intensifying its criticism of what has gone before to the point of becoming a utopian or eschatological consciousness, the hermeneutic consciousness seeks to confront that will with something of the truth of remembrance: with what is still and ever again real.”

Foreword to the Second Edition, p. xxiv

Attributed to Hans-Georg Gadamer:

“All understanding is interpretation.”

Attributed to Hans-Georg Gadamer:

“It is not so much our judgments as our prejudices that constitute our being.”

Attributed to Hans-Georg Gadamer:

“Understanding is always more than merely re-creating someone else's meaning.”

“As quoted in Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith , p. 203, by William Kolbrener. Editor Michal Michelson. Editorial Routledge, 2016. ISBN 1317100093 .”

Again, if Absolute Sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family? Or if in a Family why not in a State; since no Reason can Be alle'd for the one that will not hold more strongly for the other?

“Is it the being tied to One that offends us? Why this ought rather to recommend it to us, and would really do so, were we guided by reason, and not by humor and brutish passion. He who does not make friendship the chief inducement of his choice, and prefer it before any other consideration does not deserve a good wife, and therefore should not complain if he goes without one... The Christian institution of marriage provides the best that may be for domestic quiet and content, and for the education of children.”

As quoted in Women's Political & Social Thought: An Anthology , p. 112. Editors Hilda L. Smith, Berenice A. Carroll. Editorial Indiana University Press, 2000. ISBN 0253337585 .

“As quoted in Women's Political & Social Thought: An Anthology , p. 112. Editors Hilda L. Smith, Berenice A. Carroll. Editorial Indiana University Press, 2000. ISBN 0253337585 .”

Is it the being tied to One that offends us? Why this ought rather to recommend it to us, and would really do so, were we guided by reason, and not by humor and brutish passion. He who does not make friendship the chief inducement of his choice, and prefer it before any other consideration does not deserve a good wife, and therefore should not complain if he goes without one... The Christian insti

“Thus, whether it be wit or beauty that a man’s in love with, there are no great hopes of a lasting happiness; beauty, with all the helps of arts, is of no long date; the more it is , the sooner it decays; and he, who only or chiefly chose for beauty, will in a little time find the same reason for another choice.”

Reflection upon Marriage , as quoted in Astell: Political Writings , p. 42.

Attributed to Mary Astell:

“Nothing is, in truth, a Pleasure to us, but what is rationally so.”

“The more ideas have become automatic, instrumentalised, the less does anybody see in them thoughts with a meaning of their own.”

pp. 21-22.

“The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.”

p. 133.

“Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long discarded by scientific theory. In so far as these obsolete forms are superfluous for science, the fact that they persist violated the principle of the economy of thought, that characteristic trait of the bourgeois temper.”

p. 133.

“Leibniz’s theory on the subject as substantia ideans in the sense of a causative agent of decision and acts stands much closer to a materialist interpretation of history than does a philosophy which reduces the thinking subject to the role of subsuming protocol sentences under general propositions and deducing other sentences from them.”

p. 149.

Attributed to Max Horkheimer:

“Reason for centuries has meant the activity of understanding and assimilating the eternal ideas which were to function as goals for men.”

“Yoga is the cessation of movements of the mind . Then there is abiding in the seer 's own form.”

Patanjali , in “Yoga and You” [ citation needed ]

Attributed to Patanjali:

“Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind.”

Attributed to Patanjali:

“Then the seer abides in his own true nature.”

Attributed to Patanjali:

“Practice and detachment are the means to still the movements of consciousness.”

Attributed to Patanjali:

“By cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, joy toward the virtuous, and equanimity toward the non-virtuous, the mind retains its undisturbed calmness.”