From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

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

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

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

The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.

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

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

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