my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
Quotes
The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864It 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, 1958As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbMadness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887