The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Quotes
From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbThere is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Sooner 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, 1930The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BC