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In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958

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

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

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

—William Shakespeare, 1603

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

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

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

—George Santayana, 1920

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

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

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841