What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Quotes
In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbThe most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884