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

—Steve Biko, 1971

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

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

—Jane Austen, 1815

The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

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

—R.D. Laing, 1967

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.

—Horace, 20 BC

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

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb