Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962Quotes
“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbSooner 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, 1930Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603It 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, 1958Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010