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my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

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

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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

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

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

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

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962