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As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

—Charles Darwin, 1871

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

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

—William Shakespeare, 1603

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

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

—George Santayana, 1920