Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603Quotes
In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbAny man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCThe brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930