The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Quotes
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 may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949What 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 sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbEvery thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978