Quotes About Thought

I always thought of metaphysics as a prolonged form of latent madness.

It's by the door of thought and the window of observation that suffering comes into one's house.

I'm the ruins of buildings that were never more than ruins, whose builder, halfway through, got tired of thinking about what he was building.

A Decadência é a perda total da inconsciência; porque a inconsciência é o fundamento da vida. O coração, se pudesse pensar, pararia.

The right to live and triumph is today earned with the same qualifications one requires to be interned in a madhouse: amorality, hypomania and an incapacity for thought.

Todo cuanto hacemos, en el arte o en la vida, es la copia imperfecta de lo que hemos pensado hacer.

Vivere è non pensare.

The scholiast who annotated Virgil was wrong. Understanding is what wearies us most of all. To live is to not think.

A criança que pensa em fadas e acredita nas fadas Age como um deus doente, mas como um deus. Porque embora afirme que existe o que não existe Sabe como é que as coisas existem, que é existindo, Sabe que existir existe e não se explica, Sabe que não há razão nenhuma para nada existir, Sabe que ser é estar num ponto Só não sabe que o pensamento não é um ponto qualquer.

Let grammar rule the man who doesn't know how to think what he feels. Let it serve those who are in command when they express themselves.

Everything we do, in art or in life, is the imperfect copy of what we thought of doing.

Literature, which is art married to thought and the immaculate realization of reality, seems to me the goal towards which all human effort should be directed, as long as that effort is truly human and not just a vestige of the animal in us.

Bendito sea el elemento irónico de los destinos que concede a los pobres de vida el sueño como pensamiento, así como concedo a los pobres de sueño la vida como pensamiento o el pensamiento como vida.

The country morning exists; the city morning promises. The former makes one live; the latter makes one think.

The country morning exists; the city morning promises. The former makes one live; the latter makes one think. And I'm doomed always to feel, like the world's great damned men, that it's better to think than to live. 202

Para el hombre vulgar, sentir es vivir y pensar es saber vivir. Para mí, pensar es vivir y sentir no es más que el alimento del pensar.

Me doro con ponientes supuestos, pero lo supuesto está vivo en la suposición.

Action disconcerts us, partly because of our physical incompetence, but mainly because it offends our moral sensibility. We consider it immoral to act. It seems to us that every thought is debased when expressed in words, which transform the thought into the property of others, making it understandable to anyone who can understand it.

To think is to destroy.

And leaning on the windowsill to enjoy the day, gazing at the variegated mass of the whole city, just one thought fills my soul: that I profoundly wish to die, to cease, to see no more light shining on this city or any city, to think no more, to feel no more, to leave behind the march of time and the sun like a paper wrapper, to remove like a heavy suit – next to the big bed – the involuntary effort of being.

it was all as mysterious as a sad thought in a moment of joy, prophesying what I do not know.

La Decadencia es la pérdida total de la inconsciencia, pues la inconsciencia es el fundamento de la vida. Si el corazón pudiera pensar, se detendría.

Tutti sentono. Tutti pensano. Però non tutti sentono con il pensiero o pensano con l'emozione. Per questo le persone sono molte e gli artisti sono pochi.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Un pensamiento no paradójico me resulta casi insoportable, un pensamiento cerrado en sí mismo, coherente, que no admite la paradoja (Fernando Savater)