Organized Mind Quotes

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.

The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.

There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.

I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.

Daniel Levitin has more insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know. The organized Mind is smart, important, and, as always, exquisitely written.