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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

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

—George Santayana, 1920

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

—Donald Trump, 2015

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

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

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

—Steve Biko, 1971

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

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962