William Butler Yeats Quotes, Art Quotes, Brain Quotes

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

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I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

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I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

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What a splendid head, yet no brain.

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My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loossed upon the world.

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Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

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Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

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Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity

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That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

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Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

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When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will

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What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

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You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

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The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.

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An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

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Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.

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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

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