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The march of the human mind is slow.

—Edmund Burke, 1775

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

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

—Edith Hamilton, 1930

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

—Steve Biko, 1971

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

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

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

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

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923