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It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

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

—Milan Kundera, 1990

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

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

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

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

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957