
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.”
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.”
#32
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
How the Self Controls Its Brain (1994)
Context: The more we discover scientifically about the brain the more clearly do we distinguish between the brain events and the mental phenomena and the more wonderful do the mental phenomena become. Promissory materialism is simply a superstition held by dogmatic materialists. It has all the features of a Messianic prophecy, with the promise of a future freed of all problems—a kind of Nirvana for our unfortunate successors.
Source: A General View of Positivism (1848, 1856), p. 9
“The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.”
Source: The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
Context: The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment. Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: Humboldt From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Six, Liberating Knowledge: News from the Frontiers of Science