Quotes About Thought

the only difference between the end of love and the end of life being that at least in the latter, we are granted that the comforting thought that we will not feel anything after death. No such comfort for the lover, who knows that the end of the relationship will not necessarily be the end of love, and almost certainly no the end of life.

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train.

the only difference between the end of love and the end of life being that at least in the latter, we are granted the comforting thought that we will not feel anything after death. No such comfort for the lover, who knows that the end of the relationship will not necessarily be the end of love, and almost certainly not the end of life.

If, as Proust suggests, we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.

Our weak understanding of our needs is aggravated by what Epicurus termed 'idle opinions' of those around us, which do not reflect the natural hierarchy of our needs, emphasizing luxury and riches, seldom friendship, freedom and thought. The prevalence of idle opinion is no coincidence. It is in the interest of commercial enterprises to slew the hierarchy of our needs, to promote a material vision of good and downplay an unsaleable one.

Few things are as antithetical to sex as thought. Sex is instinctive, unreflexive and spontaneous, while thought is careful, uninvolved, and judgemental. To think during sex is to violate a fundamental law of intercourse.

si esperas librarte del miedo hay algunas cosas que debes comprender, y comprender plenamente. La mente es muy poderosa y jamás pierde su fuerza creativa. Nunca duerme. Está creando continuamente. Es difícil reconocer la oleada de poder que resulta de la combinación de pensamiento y creencia, la cual puede literalmente mover montañas […] No hay pensamientos fútiles. Todo pensamiento produce forma en algún nivel.

Probably, an increasingly desperate Bala-Tik thought as he let off yet another ineffectual blast, Solo had done it by talking all of them into a state of complete insensibility.

Luke Skywalker? I thought he was just a myth.

I thought, these are the evening routines which will soon be mine, the tug of an unknown suburb, or a bar, or a lover.

The person who wants to think will have to practice patience and master fear.

the tale of a community that provides security in exchange for thought

asked, 'Lord, does he or she who sees the vision perceive it through soul or spirit?' He answered, 'One perceives through neither soul nor spirit but by mind, which mediates between both; visions are mental.

Why would people ever think, when thinking deprives them of "the pleasure of sharing an attitude one knows is socially approved

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.

Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.

If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.

When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking.

I decided that my magic had to change. That I had to give serious thought to presentation. That, in fact, my presentation of the effects is where my impact as a magician lies I realised that it can turn a good effect into something artistic and stunning.

Instead of René Descartes' famous "Cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am), I propose "Communico ergo sum," (I communicate, therefore I exist") as the philosophical proof of man's existence.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

Quo enim melius rem aliquam concipimus, eo magis determinati sumus ad eam unico modo exprimendam.