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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

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

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

—Milan Kundera, 1990

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

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

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

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

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

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

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

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962