Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962Quotes
The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BC“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbWhat 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, 2010Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing