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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

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

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

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

—Milan Kundera, 1990

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

—Steve Biko, 1971

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

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

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

—George Santayana, 1920

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

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

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899