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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

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

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

—George Santayana, 1920

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

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

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

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

—William Shakespeare, 1603

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

—Jane Austen, 1815

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60