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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

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

—George Santayana, 1920

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

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

—Steve Biko, 1971

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

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

—Charles Darwin, 1871

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

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

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb