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To be sane in a mad time
is bad for the brain, worse
for the heart.
--
"The Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment" in The Country of Marriage (1973)

 

Wendell Berry

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Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?

 

Philip Kindred - a.k.a. PKD Dick

 

Extinguish my sight, and I can still see you;
plug up my ears, and I can still hear;
even without feet I can walk toward you,
and without mouth I can still implore.
Break off my arms, and I will hold you
with my heart as if it were a hand;
strangle my heart, and my brain will still throb;
and should you set fire to my brain,
I still can carry you with my blood.

 

Rainer Maria Rilke

 

You don't know, perhaps, but I will tell you; the brain is the palest of all the internal organs, and the heart the reddest. Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.

 

Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain.

 

Winston Churchill

 

You now have learned enough to see
That Cats are much like you and me
And other people whom we find
Possessed of various types of mind.
For some are sane and some are mad
And some are good and some are bad
And some are better, some are worse —
But all may be described in verse.

 

Thomas Stearns (T. S.) Eliot