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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

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

—Milan Kundera, 1990

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

—Donald Trump, 2015

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.

—Horace, 20 BC

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864

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

—George Santayana, 1920