The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Quotes
What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Sooner 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, 1930Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949