"My own brain is to me the..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.”

“The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.”

“Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.”

“I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things”

“Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing.”

“Within the book and volume of thy brain.”

“Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.”

“The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.”

“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”