Mental Quotes

Love is a serious mental disease. (Plato)
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. View quote
John Dewey
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. View quote
W. H. Auden
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Doubt is a not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one. View quote
Voltaire
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. (Oriana Fallaci)
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. View quote
Emil Cioran
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. View quote
Dale Carnegie
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. View quote
Howard H. Aiken
Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe. View quote
Herbert Hoover
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! View quote
Bob Marley
What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. View quote
Helen Rowland
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. View quote
Karl Kraus
In the past, men created witches now they create mental patients. View quote
Thomas Szasz
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics. (Franz Boas)
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. View quote
Karl Marx
I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with. View quote
Adam Ant
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt