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Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

—Charles Darwin, 1871

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

—George Santayana, 1920

Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

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

—Donald Trump, 2015