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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

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

—Charles Darwin, 1871

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—George Santayana, 1920

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

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

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

—R.D. Laing, 1967

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

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

—William Shakespeare, 1603

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

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

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951