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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

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

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

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

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

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

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

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

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

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

—William Shakespeare, 1603

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841