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In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

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

—R.D. Laing, 1967

“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

—Milan Kundera, 1990

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

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

—George Santayana, 1920

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

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

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170