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What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

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

—George Santayana, 1920

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

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

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

—Jane Austen, 1815

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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

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

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923