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If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.

—Horace, 20 BC

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

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

—R.D. Laing, 1967

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

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

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

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

—William Shakespeare, 1603