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Quotations Mind - Body

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

A. E. Housman, 1859-1936, English, Poet

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

Adela Florence Nicolson, 1865-1904, English, Poet

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Aeschylus, 525-456 BCE, Greek, Poet

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperament?

Aeschylus, 525-456 BCE, Greek, Poet

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie, 1890-1976, Englidh, Writer

Text-messaging or The Sun, these are perfect Orwellian ways of limiting the vocabulary and thus limiting the consciousness.

Alan Moore, 1953-, British, Writer

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

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What we really are is, first of all, the whole of our body.

Alan Watts, 1915-1973, English, Philosopher

Underneath the superficial self, which pays attention to this and that, there is another self more really us than I.

Alan Watts, 1915-1973, English, Philosopher

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Albert Bandura, 1925-, Canadian, Psychologist

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

Albert Bandura, 1925-, Canadian, Psychologist

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.