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What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

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

A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

—Jane Austen, 1815

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

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

—Charles Darwin, 1871

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906