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
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The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906