Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603Quotes
my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978