“ There are a great number of ego defenses, and the combinations and circumstances in which we use them reflect on our personality. Indeed, one could go so far as to argue that the self is nothing but t… Neel Burton
“ For the [innate] general principles enter into our thoughts, of which they form the soul and the connection. They are as necessary thereto as the muscles and sinews are for walking, although we do not… Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“ The mind is not only capable of knowing [innate ideas], but further of finding them in itself; and if it had only the simple capacity to receive knowledge…it would not be the source of necessary truth… Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“ The mind leans on [innate] principles every moment, but it does not come so easily to distinguish them and to represent them distinctly and separately, because that demands great attention to its acts… Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“ Once we have isolated the computational and neurological correlates of access-consciousness, there is nothing left to explain. It's just irrational to insist that sentience remains unexplained after a… Steven Pinker
“ Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly. Abhijit Naskar
“ As researchers of the paranormal, we must understand there are ways to change the rhythm of time within us, ways to change the beat. These ways have been known since the beginnings of civilization, an… Ojo Blacke
“ Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy. Scott O'Reilly
“ Unlike any other empirical object in Nature, the mind's presence is immediately apparent to itself, but opaque to all external observers. George Makari
“ Water and a bubble on it are one and the same. The bubble has its birth in the water, floats on it, and is ultimately resolved into it. Likewise, your consciousness is born in your brain, goes through… Abhijit Naskar
“ It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of… Abhijit Naskar
“ You are modern humans of the civilized world. And modern humans rise beyond all laws and superstitions of the society. They help their fellow beings to rise from the ashes of ignorance, illusion and f… Abhijit Naskar
“ There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind. Aberjhani
“ Scientific understanding of nature, doesn't make a person religious or atheist. It makes a person liberated of all labels. Moreover it makes a person kind and understanding. Abhijit Naskar
“ Quantum Mechanics can indeed be extremely complex to grasp, but when we talk about Consciousness, with decades of rigorous studies on the human brain we have realized that actually, there is no other… Abhijit Naskar