The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775
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Sooner 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, 1930The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbWhat a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897