Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbQuotes
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing