Baboons
"Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful." – Aldous Huxley
"What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of [...]
Bad Dreams
"Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams." – Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence
"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up." [...]
Belief
"Man is what he believes." – Anton Chekhov
"Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind." – John C. Lilly
"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired." – Nikos Kazantzakis [...]
Body
"Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs." – Edmond and Jules De Goncourt, 1822-1896
"Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours [...]
Chaos
"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds." – George Santayana
"For life is at the start a chaos in which one is lost. The individual suspects this, but he is frightened of finding himself face to face with this terrible reality, and tries to cover it over [...]
Consistency
"People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent.'" – Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." – R.W. Emerson
Contradictions
"Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions." – Andre Breton, 1889-1966
"A successful work of art is not [...]
Discovery
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." – James Joyce
"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind." – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Doublethink
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." – George Orwell
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." – F. Scott Fitzgerald [...]
Fanatics
"Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic." – Otto Schuwdrmer
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." – Winston S. Churchill, 1874-1965
"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt." – Aldous Huxley
"A fanatic is a man [...]
