Mind

“Progress in thinking is progress toward simplicity.”

“Since the principal function of the sensorium commune thus consists in the reflexion of sensorial impressions into motor.”

“There is no problem of mind which is so provocative as that of memory.”

“Greatness is a state of mind.”

“For all are by nature of very subtle, lively, clear and most capable understanding.”

“Psychology is occupied with the natural function of Intellection, seeking to discover its laws.”

“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”

“Psychology, on the contrary, has as its subject of treatment the total content of experience in its immediate character.”

“Reading is to the Mind, what Exercise is to the Body.”

“Once a memory has been implanted through suggestion, it can seem very, very real to the person.”

“My process is thinking, thinking and thinking -- thinking about my stories for a long time.”

“I’m like a sponge, so whatever I hear, I’m soaking it up and then I’m trying to figure it out for myself.”

“« La mémoire, telle que le sens commun l’entend et que la psychologie ordinaire la décrit, loin d’être la mémoire tout entière, n’en est qu’un cas particulier, le plus élevé et le plus complexe. »”

“The first strong propensity of my mind which I can recollect, was an ardent curiosity, and desire to acquire knowledge.”

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

“Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

“Drawing is the connecting tissue in my practice, a thinking tool that I use to align my art with poetry.”

“Psychology should be conceived as the science of the self, or person, as related to its environment, physical and social.”

“Your conscience shouts, ‘here’s what you should do,’ while your intuition whispers, ‘here’s what you could do.’”

“When you sit with your pen, every year of your life is right there, wired into the communication between your brain and your writing hand.”