If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCQuotes
What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603