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The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

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