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The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

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

—R.D. Laing, 1967

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

—Jane Austen, 1815

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

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