Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920Quotes
The 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. 170The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbAny man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969