Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Quotes
Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799Sooner 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, 1930Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967