Brian Aldiss Quotes

The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

You only have one thing in your mind, and that is your mind; once that's gone, your whole reality is distorted.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

I love the human mind.

May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.

Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.

There is no order of things except in the human mind.

Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane.

The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

Is it you and I who are crazy, or is it everybody else?

The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to trurh.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads.

The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.

I love The End of the Batman story. I have my original copy, the hardcover, at my house from when I was a kid, whenever that was,'88 or '89. It was very influential to me because it was so explicit in touching on the notion that Batman might be mad and that he might belong in the mad house.

The schizophrenic may indeed be mad. He is mad. He is not ill. I have been told by people who have been through the mad experience how what was then revealed to them was veritable manna from Heaven. The person's whole life may be changed, but it is difficult not to doubt the validity of such vision. Also, not everyone comes back to us again.