Business Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“To think that each skull once had skin and flesh and was stuffed with gray matter—in varying quantities—teeming with thoughts of food and sex…

— Haruki Murakami

“Coffined thoughts around me, in mummycases, embalmed in spice of words. Thoth, god of libraries, a birdgod, moonycrowned. And I heard the voice of…

— James Joyce

“The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing…

— Oscar Wilde

“I found it idiotically distressing that a sharp finger whistle could no longer summon them outdoors into a playful twilight. An ancient discovery was…

— Joseph O'Neill

“the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain.”

— Deepak Chopra

“machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves”

— William Shakespeare

“He tried sedatives and hypnotics but they made him dependent, sending him inward in tight spirals. Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic.…

— Don DeLillo

“I'd learned quite early in life that the mind loves nothing better than to spook itself with outlandish stories, as if the various coils…

— Alan Bradley

“I now argue that entry into Upper Palaeolithic caves was probably seen as virtually indistinguishable from entry into the mental vortex that leads to…

— James David Lewis-Williams

We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.

— Patricia J. Williams

For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable…

— Anonymous

“We had each of us some whimsy in the brain, which we believed more than anything else, and which discoloured all experience to its…

— Robert Louis Stevenson