Quotes About Thought

When a person's intention is selfless towards the welfare of the people, he ought to say or write his thought very blunt and straight else often it will lose its magical impact and powerful weight.

All the facts of science aren't enough to understand the world's meaning. For this, you must step outside the world." "Without language of thought, how can you understand anything?" "Who knows, maybe by whistling?

It would have impacted my choice making to hear the true meaning of my existence. I was an intelligent individual who would have benefited from the concept of thought creates reality.

The tendency of modern political thought is to increase the control of government, and to regard all departments of activity as branches of the state, to be held and worked for the general good of the community. Thus there is a danger that the individual may gradually lose all initiative, and life be impoverished under a coercive mechanical system.

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

Life divine! O life eternal! Man cannot translate the thought. Strong the chain that God hath welded; Link on link hath chain been wrought. Fabric new each day is woven, Woven it on God's own loom. We the threads can ne'er unravel, Hidden they in Nature's womb.

A fickle goddess Thought at times-- Try ne'er so hard we catch her not. We try to think: 'tis all in vain-- Imprisoned never is a thought. Like lightning flashing through the clouds, It comes--a light, and then is gone, A star which falls adown through space, Again it comes as morning dawn.

Thought is the parent. If error has crept in among the little thoughts, and the children have become disobedient and refractory, it is not the parent's fault. Nor must you blame the children either; they are young yet, and you must not expect too much of them.

Most people give little enough real thought to their own mortality. Oh yes, they gabble on about heaven and the bosom of Abraham, but really, they are weary of life almost from the time they're born, and are only waiting for it all to end. They live their days quietly, obscurely, and underneath their daily toils, they long for oblivion.

In order to attain knowledge, which is a form of power, we cannot continue to endorse, with blinded vision and stilted jargon, the initiation rituals with which our spiritual high priests seek to legitimize and protect their exclusive privileges of thought and expression.

Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence of thought to its own gross level.

By words the mind is winged.

If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.

Our statements will be adequate if made with as much clearness as the matter allows.

Thought is required wherever a statement is proved, or, it may be, a general truth enunciated.

If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal.

Every Tragedy, therefore, must have six parts, which parts determine its quality--namely, Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, Song.

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Este problema, hora es ya de revelarlo, no era otro que el origen del pensamiento.

without the power to concentrate that is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence.

The doctrine of spontaneous naturalism of Renaissance comes from the same source as the theory that the fight against the spirit of authority and hierarchy, the ideal of freedom of thought and freedom of conscience, the emancipation of the individual and the principle of democracy are achievements of fifteenth century. In all this light of the modern age is contrasted with the darkness of the Middle Ages.