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| 23217 | All of our happiness and misery arises entirely from the brain |
| Full Idea: Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain alone, arise our pleasures, joys, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrow, pains, griefs and tears. | |||
| From: Hippocrates (Hippocrates of Cos on the mind [c.430 BCE], p.32) | |||
| A reaction: If this could be assertedly so confidently at that date, why was the fact so slow to catch on? Brain injuries should have convinced everyone. |