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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

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

—Milan Kundera, 1990

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

—Edith Hamilton, 1930

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.

—Horace, 20 BC

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

—George Santayana, 1920