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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

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

—Jane Austen, 1815

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

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 sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

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

—R.D. Laing, 1967

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

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

—Charles Darwin, 1871

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

—Margaret Fuller, 1844