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

—George Santayana, 1920

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

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

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864

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

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

—Edith Hamilton, 1930