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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

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

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

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

—R.D. Laing, 1967

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

—Donald Trump, 2015

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

—George Santayana, 1920

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

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

—Charles Darwin, 1871

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170