“The mind does not regulate its own condition. Mental depression, for example, is a state of mind caused by the body. In a cell in the hole it only seems that there is a separation of mind and body - in fact, the body's condition (of deprivation of sensations; experiences, functions, and so on) controls the moods of the mind more than in any other situation I can think of.”
In the Belly of the Beast (1981)
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“Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body?
I dunno…”
From the song "Still Ill"
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Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover
Source: The Concept of Mind (1949), Ch. II: Knowing How and Knowing That, (10) Solipsism
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VIII. On Mind and Soul, and that the latter is immortal.
On the Gods and the Cosmos