Mental Substance Quotes

There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

The body cannot be the soul.

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists.

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.