my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
Quotes
Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbThe brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Sooner 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, 1930Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962