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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

—Steve Biko, 1971

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

—Jane Austen, 1815

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

—R.D. Laing, 1967

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

—William Shakespeare, 1603

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

—Margaret Fuller, 1844