Quotes About Thought

The notion of private ideas had no ground in [prehistoric] emotional experience.... The notion of a private interior in which the subject can close the door behind it, reflect upon and express itself was unknown before the early individualistic turn in antiquity; its propagandists were the men known as sages or philosophers.... who first gave the motif that true thought was only possible as independent thought, as thinking differently from the stupid masses....

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

Alle, die professionell schreiben, wissen, dass sich ein Gedanke oft erst in der Arbeit an der genauen Formulierung klärt. Sie wissen, dass wir vieles nur schreibend wirklich zu Ende denken können. So wie auch unsere besten Gedanken nicht selten aus dem konzentrierten Prozess des Schreibens heraus entstehen und plötzlich da sind, zu unserer eigenen Überraschung.

Geoff stared into Eric's vacant eyes and thought seriously about going into a mad panic: the sort of panic where you pull your hair out, eat some of it, then run around the room with your pants on your head screaming like a girl.

A neuron didn't know whether it fired in response to a scent or a symphony. Brain cells weren't intelligent; only brains were. And brain cells weren't even the lower limit. The origins of thought were buried so deep they predated multicellular life itself: neurotransmitters in choanoflagellates, potassium ion gates in Monosiga. I am a colony of microbes talking to itself, Brüks reflected.

you gotta let go of this whole self thing. Identity changes by the second, you turn into someone else every time a new thought rewires your brain.

Identity changes by the second, you turn into someone else every time a new thought rewires your brain. You're already a different person than you were ten minutes ago.

We're not thinking machines, we're—we're feeling machines that happen to think.

People aren't rational. You aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're—we're feeling machines that happen to think.

Dan, you gotta let go of this whole self thing. Identity changes by the second, you turn into someone else every time a new thought rewires your brain. You're already a different person than you were ten minutes ago.

Long before art and science and philosophy arose, consciousness had but one function: not to merely implement motor commands, but to mediate between commands in opposition.

It's the anthropic principle's evil twin, he thought.

I glanced around at all that customized abstraction: internal feedback, lucidly dreamed. "You're omnipotent in here. Desire anything, imagine anything; there it is. I'd thought it would have changed you more.

consciousness had but one function: not to merely implement motor commands, but to mediate between commands in opposition.

People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.

Hürriyete ve mes'uliyete inanan bir adam?n asla filozof olam?yaca??n? Ferit ilk defa o anda dü?ündü.

Zekan?n en sivri noktas? ?üphe ve tereddüttür.

Ferit dü?ündü. Hastal?k teyzenin kendisi de?il. Hastal?k namazla Swing aras?nda. Memleketin hastal???.

In San Francisco, the Stalker knew, it would be easier to get in and out of people's homes; they would not be so cautious and vigilant about security as everyone in L.A. had become. The thought of stopping never entered his mind. There were only two ways he would stop: he'd either die or be incarcerated.

One doesnt write about anything. One just writes.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.