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.
Gist of Idea
All of our happiness and misery arises entirely from the brain
Source
Hippocrates (Hippocrates of Cos on the mind [c.430 BCE], p.32)
Book Reference
'Body, Mind and Death', ed/tr. Flew,Anthony [Macmillan 1964], 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.
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