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The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

—Donald Trump, 2015

The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.

—R.D. Laing, 1967

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

—Milan Kundera, 1990

From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60

It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775