The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Quotes
If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCThe mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962Sooner 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, 1930The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897