#mind

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#explanation #genetics #intellectuals #invokes #mind

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#baggage #down #emotional #empirical #how

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#brain #dangerous #genome #idea #implications

I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things. ↗

— Billie Piper

#find #friend #i #like #little

I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#art #beautiful #come #could #dreams

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#dying #figure #haven #i #life

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. ↗

— Max Planck

#behind #conscious #existence #exists #force

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#horror #impress #mind #power #reality

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.' ↗

— Amy Poehler

#always #closed #keep #know #limit

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#experience #faculty #forces #mind #only