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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

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

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

—Jane Austen, 1815

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

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

—Steve Biko, 1971

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

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

—R.D. Laing, 1967

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906