Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962Quotes
It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbIn psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733