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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

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 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

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

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

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.

—R.D. Laing, 1967

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978