Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Quotes
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbImagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887If 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