Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887Quotes
The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864Sooner 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, 1930