What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807
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Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971