Quotes About Thought

Stoicism is a logical philosophy.

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

Girls always think, "I'm going to be the exception," Caroline thought; it's a weakness of the species, like a collie's tiny brain.

we are reluctant to admit that the poetic imagination sets the bounds for human thought. At the heart of philosophy's quarrel with poetry is the fear that the imagination goes all the way down—that there is nothing we talk about that we might not have talked of differently.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party – though they are quite numerous – is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of justice, but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when 'freedom' becomes a special privilege.

The beauty of the sensation was so intense that fear dropped away. It felt like a kind of birth. She opened her eyes. Sunlight through a foggy window. A green plant on a shelf. The dim delicious fall air. She was a new baby—skin frail as paper, arms weak as milk, brain forming shapes into thought.

Hildegarde stood, scratched her nose, an act for which she must later say a penance.

But a quick-acting poison, that's different. It strikes with blind swiftness. You can be bit by temptation anytime. It is a thought, a direction, a noise in your brain, a hunch, an intuition that leads you to darker places than you've ever imagined. I

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

Was he really insane? At a time when the world is upside down and it's thought insane to ask why you're being murdered, it obviously requires no great effort to pass for a lunatic.

she thought darkly, sploshing cold Sauvignon Blanc into two glasses and knocking back half of

The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.

Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

So in the end, when one is doing philosophy, one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in doing so, you did not encounter new images, new linguistic fields.