Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Quotes
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851From 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, 1990If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCThe human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971