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

—William Shakespeare, 1603

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

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

—George Santayana, 1920

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

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

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

To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864

Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

—Edith Hamilton, 1930