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

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

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

—Donald Trump, 2015

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

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

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

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

—George Santayana, 1920