The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Quotes
Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbSanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60