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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

—R.D. Laing, 1967

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

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

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

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

Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

—Edith Hamilton, 1930

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