In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Quotes
Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbSanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969The 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, 1962Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbThe mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170