The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Quotes
Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844