On the whole, "organic" illnesses of the body are viewed as a misfortune over which the victim has little control. Not so for "men...tal" illnesses. These diseases of the mind become diseases of the "self." We (our "selves") can distance ourselves from our "bodily" illnesses: "my leg is broken" or "my heart is failing." But, because of mind-body dualism, our mind is our self. "My mind is sick" is not differentiated psychologically from "I am sick." We cannot distance ourselves, take a detached view of our minds: we are our minds. When a disease affects brain function, the afflicted person and those around him feel that the "self" must be somehow in control of the disorder of "self."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kittering's brain. What we will he think when he resumes life in that body? Will he thank us for giving him a new lease on life? O...r will he object to finding his ego living in that human junk heap?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Brain is just the weight of God-- For--Heft them--Pound for Pound--... And they will differ--if they do-- As Syllable from Sound--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I never drink wine ... I keep my hands soft and supple ... I sleep in a soft bed and never over-tire my body. It is because whe...n my hour strikes I must be a perfect instrument. My eyes must be steady, my brain clear, my nerves calm, my aim true. I must be prepared to do my work, successfully if God wills. But if I perish, I perish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For not many men, the proverb saith, Can love a friend whom fortune prospereth... Unenvying; and about the envious brain Cold poison clings, and doubles all the pain Life brings him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Time in the heart and sequence in the brain-- ... Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine. And let us then take godhead by the neck-- And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am willing, for a money consideration, to test this physical strength, this nervous force, and muscular power with which I've be...en gifted, to show that they will bear a certain strain. If I break down, if my brain gives way under want of sleep, my heart ceases to respond to the calls made on my circulatory system, or the surcharged veins of my extremities burst--if, in short, I fall helpless, or it may be, dead on the track, then I lose my money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Still, after many years, in distant lands, Still nourishing in thy bewildered brain... That wild, unquenched, deep-sunken, old-world pain-- Say, will it never heal?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »