Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Quotes
Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949