Quotes About Thought

Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had. Hence the deep impact it has made on its life and thought.

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.

Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.

In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

Man's life is entirely in his operations, which may all be classed under three heads: he thinks, he feels, and he acts -- these three modes of activity exhaust his powers.

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.

The interior life is often stupid.

Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.

No law can shackle human thought