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

—George Santayana, 1920

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

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

—Steve Biko, 1971

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

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

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

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

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

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

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