Cognitive Well-Being Quotes

There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

Mind over mattress.

Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.

It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary - and not only necessary but urgent - to interest minds in the fate of Mind, that is to say, in their own fate.

Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused on keeping us in a state of constant alert.

The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.

It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.