Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603Quotes
It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbIs there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733