Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Quotes
It 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, 1958What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbStrength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603