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"Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine."
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"The mind is an instrument made up of universal consciousness, egocentric consciousness, societal consciousness, along with education, values, virtues, judgment and wisdom."

"If you want to understand the inner workings of the human mind, read good fiction."

"When you say to someone "follow your heart, it actually refers to the rhetorical representation of various emotions, that are precisely produced from neural activity of the limbic system. So, the metaphoric heart we always boast about while giving advice to our friends, is actually not anywhere near the biological organ known as heart. Rather it too, like all other elements of the human mind exists only in the brain."

"All endeavors, heroic or monstrous, scientific or philosophical, rise from the electrochemical functioning of the mind, that takes place relentlessly in the little specks of protoplasm inside the head. These specks of jelly inside the brain, known as the neurons, determine our identity, personality and everything that we are."

"People always talk like there's a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn't, at least not for me. I remember what I've imagined and imagine what I remember."

"Thoughts are supreme. It is driving the car we call life. So to reach the deserved destination think right."

"Your skull encloses your brains. But never forget that anytime you open your mouth to talk, you have opened your mind for the entire world to see what is hidden in there!"
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"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."

"You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature."

"When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase."

"A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die."

"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."

"From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy."
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