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The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

—Steve Biko, 1971

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.

—William Shakespeare, 1603

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

—Charles Darwin, 1871

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

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

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

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

—George Santayana, 1920

From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923