The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Quotes
my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969It 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, 1958Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010