Quotes About Thought

MEPHISTO. Good fortune's closely linked to merit, A thought that never enters foolish minds; The Philosopher's Stone's there in their hands? The Philosopher's searching everywhere for it.

In the Beginning was the Mind'.

Pensar!—exclamé. ¿Qué necesidad tenéis de recordármelo, puesto que, piense o no piense, siempre estáis presente en mi alma?

Men always believe, when they hear words, [2565] There must be thought behind them, too.

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Is it Mind that works and creates what's ours?

Actuar es fácil, pensar es difícil; actuar según se piensa es aún más difícil

un cerebro que puede pensar bien, creará con el tiempo un pensador.

Ne?e ile ?zd?rapla, Dü?ünce ile dolu iken, Tükenmez ezalar içinde, Ümitler, tereddütler geçirirken Kederler içinde yo?urulurken Mesut olan, Ancak seven ruhtur.

Jesus fühlte rein und dachte Nur den Einen Gott im stillen; Wer ihn selbst zum Gotte machte, Kränkte seinen heiligen Willen.

Danger takes from a man all power of thought

If the power of the mind were not in matter, how could matter disturb the mind.

People imagine that they can hold their own against the literary production of the world. An illusion. You dig through the centuries, through all the various corners of the universe, and nowhere are you at home. Through this game, judgement and thought lose their edge. It is simply a waste of time and strength.

quickly. Well, it was probably still there, he

said, "I thought

And here I thought you were actually going to behave yourself," he said. "It's going to get worse if they don't keep their hands off you." "I suppose you're going to tell me now that only you have the right to touch me." "I see we understand each other.

The unconscious evaluation of everything does appear to be a very old and primitive effect that existed long before we developed conscious and deliberate modes of thought.

If orthodoxy (which literally means "right teaching") proclaims a single, authorized set of answers, we celebrate instead the open mind. We trust that our own thoughts and experiences can be as illuminating as the thoughts and experiences of those who came before us. Not that our answers will therefore be superior.

When People talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists: but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

Am I th'abandon'd orphan of blind chance; Dropt by wild atoms in disorder'd dance? Or from an endless chain of causes wrought? And of unthinking substance, born with thought?

I'm a little surprised that commercial success has arrived. I used to think that it was hopeless, that it would never happen.