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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

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

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

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

—George Santayana, 1920

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

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978