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

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

—Milan Kundera, 1990

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

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

—George Santayana, 1920

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

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898