Mental Life Quotes

“One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior.”
― Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“The human brain always concocts biases to aid in the construction of a coherent mental life, exclusively suitable for an individual’s personal needs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“Mary was my first encounter with dissociative identity disorder (DID), which at that time was called multiple personality disorder. As dramatic as its symptoms are, the internal splitting and emergence of distinct identities experienced in DID represent only the extreme end of the spectrum of mental life.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“If you could have sufficient insight into all the inner and outer parts of your mental life, along with remembrance and intelligence enough to consider all the circumstances and take them into account, you would be a true prophet and visualize the future in the present as in a mirror.”
― Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?