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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

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

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

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

—George Santayana, 1920

“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

—Milan Kundera, 1990

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962