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Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

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

—Steve Biko, 1971

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.

—Horace, 20 BC

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923