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Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.

—William Shakespeare, 1603

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

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

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

—Milan Kundera, 1990

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

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

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920