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

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

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

—William Shakespeare, 1603

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

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

—Jane Austen, 1815