What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971Quotes
Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCWhat is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbBrain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906