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

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

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

—Donald Trump, 2015

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

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

—George Santayana, 1920

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

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

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

To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb