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

—Jane Austen, 1815

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

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

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

—Charles Darwin, 1871

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb