Quotes About Thought

Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things. In my opinion the answer to this question is, briefly, this:--As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory.

The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought

Logik bringt dich von A nach B, deine Vorstellungskraft bringt dich überall hin.

Few people are able to express opinions that dissent from the prejudices of their social group. The majority are even incapable of forming such opinions at all.

The essential in the being of a man of my type lies precisely in what he thinks and how he thinks, not in what he does or suffers.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

Los regímenes demagógicos exigen que olvidemos y, por tanto, estigmatizan los libros como un lujo superfluo; los regímenes totalitarios quieren que no pensemos y, por consiguiente, prohíben y amenazan y censuran; ambos, en general, necesitan que nos volvamos estúpidos y que aceptemos con mansedumbre nuestra degradación y por eso alientan el consumo de productos vacuos. En circunstancias como ésas, los lectores no pueden más que ser subversivos.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

What fun it would be if one didn't have to think about happiness! - From Brave New World

Oh, what fun it would be, he thought, if one didn't have to think about happiness.

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

That one should have to talk about the mind in metaphors is unfortunate, but inevitable.

Because it is idiotic. Writing when there's nothing to say...

What fun would it be if one didn't have to think about happiness

What fun it would be, he thought, if one didn't have to think about happiness!

Thought is the brain's three milliards Of cells from the inside out. Billions of games of billiards Marked up as Faith and Doubt. My Faith, but their collisions; My logic, but their enzymes; Their pink epinephrin, my visions; Their white epinephrin, my crimes. Since I am the felt arrangement Of ten to the ninth times three, Each atom in its estrangement Must yet be prophetic of me.

Thought is crude, matter unimaginably subtle.

For Persons are selves and, in one respect at least, I was now a Not- self, simultaneously perceiving and being the Not-self of the things around me. To this new-born Not- self, the behavior, the appearance, the very thought of the self it had momentarily ceased to be, and of other selves, its one-time fellows, seemed not indeed distasteful (for distastefulness was not one of the categories in terms of which I was thinking), but enormously irrelevant.

He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Como seria divertido", pensou, "se não se tivesse de pensar na felicidade!

To use the intelligence in any other than the habitual way is not to use the intelligence; it is to be irrational, to rave like a madman.

We are unable to see the mind, and find it difficult in consequence to understand its nature.

You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.