The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Quotes
my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCDon’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962