Novalis Quotes

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

The brain is the black box: the final frontier.

How does anybody ever think of anything?

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.

I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connects with the solution you're trying to find.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

Improv is like writing. It's actually a different discipline to acting. It helps acting greatly, but it's completely different. It's the same side of your brain when you write as when you improv.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

I love the human mind.

The great events of the world take place in the brain.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

Nicola Tesla didn't say, 'I have to make wireless electricity!' The brain does not work that way.

Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve problems we call hard. But whenever you learn a skill yourself, you're less impressed or mystified when other people do the same. This is why the meaning of 'intelligence' seems so elusive: It describes not some definite thing but only the momentary horizon of our ignorance about how minds might work.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.