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The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

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

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

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

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

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

—William Shakespeare, 1603

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

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

—Milan Kundera, 1990

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

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

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906