Mental Quotes

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammals in their mental faculties.

Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.

Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.

Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.