Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920Quotes
my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887It 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 brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851