The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884Quotes
The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851