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Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.

—Horace, 20 BC

“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

—Milan Kundera, 1990

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

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923