my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
Quotes
Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841