The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884Quotes
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, 1807Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775