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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

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 march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

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

Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

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

—R.D. Laing, 1967