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

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

—Jane Austen, 1815

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

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

—Charles Darwin, 1871

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

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

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

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

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

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb