Quotes About Thought

Philosophers are despots who have no armies to command, so they subject the world to their tyranny by locking it up in a system of thought

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can't afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

Consciousness is the awareness of awareness.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Be prepared to re-examine your reasoning

The emptiness of life is, at times, deafening. I think the thought of my existence is a pain because I feel at some times that I do not understand it, and at other times, I don't think there is anything to understand.

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

Action isn't my forte. I'm an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

The revolutionary thought, brought out more clearly in The General Theory, was that there was no automatic mechanism in a modern economic system to keep intended saving in equilibrium with intended investment.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

The revolver lay heavy against my thigh. I hadn't even thought to use it, I realized. I mentioned it to Mr. Strong. "It was fortunate you didn't. That grizzly would have torn you to pieces.

However much we champion freedom of thought, we actually spend much of our time censoring input. We seek out publications that mirror or support our prior views and largely avoid those that don't.

That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.

Psychiatry's thought leaders shaped our society's understanding of mental disorders, and once they began serving as paid speakers, the pharmaceutical companies sent money their way through multiple channels.

So, there is really no entity by the name of [my] "mind";

The world is your thought.

Once the I-thought has completely died, there is not even the thought of "I am Self." [There is only Be-ing.]

meditation as a process that takes a conscious mind that gets to do a little nudging and turns it into something that can do a lot of

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

Lo que llamamos locura es la descostumbre del pensamiento de los otros.

I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.

I'd love her until the end of time, he thought. An hour later he'd already forgotten the matter completely.

what we think of as peacefulness is wrong and peacefulness or the realms of peacefulness are really no more than a gauge of movement, an accelerator or a brake, depending.