Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Quotes
Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962