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

—William Shakespeare, 1603

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

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

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

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

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864

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

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978