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

—William Shakespeare, 1603

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

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

—Charles Darwin, 1871

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

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

—George Santayana, 1920

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

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

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

—Milan Kundera, 1990

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971