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

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

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

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

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

The march of the human mind is slow.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.

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

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

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

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

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