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

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.

—R.D. Laing, 1967

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

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

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

—Steve Biko, 1971

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60

The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

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

—Milan Kundera, 1990