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Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

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

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

—R.D. Laing, 1967

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

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

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864

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

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

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

—William Shakespeare, 1603

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923