Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962
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Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015