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Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

—George Santayana, 1920

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

—Donald Trump, 2015

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958

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

—Jane Austen, 1815

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

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

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

—R.D. Laing, 1967

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

—B.F. Skinner, 1969