Quotes About Thought

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

Life and thought mutually illuminate each other: I come to understand what I believe and the language I use only as I live it, and I am able to live my belief and the language I use only as I come to understand them more clearly."9

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Personal Identity depends on Consciousness not on Substance

Beasts abstract not.

There are some Men of one, some but of two Syllogisms, and no more; and others that can but advance one step farther.

Personal identity is made of sameness of consciousness.

It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them.

Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where — at least in the short run — the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens.

En la mente humana hay intelecto, memoria y voluntad, pero las tres son una. Y,

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

learned about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which said that the language you spoke affected how you processed reality.

And yet, the second time had blocked out the first time, and I didn't like to think that it hadn't been the first time.

A new line is a new mind.

If you think while you write, you will enjoy it more and your prose will be more muscular and engaging.

I replied, 'I do not think as you do.' 'Child, you are not born to think; you were not made to think.

Tis true: but in imagination, I can encompass the vast globe in a second. Hail thought! Thought the soul of existence!—Not think!—why do not all forms in which the pulse of life vibrates, possess the power of thought?

Afterwards I thought it best to spare you any more farewells, which are upon human lips, of all words, the most natural, and of all the most painful.

What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--but a human thought caught and bound, made concrete through sacred technology. Magic, then, and a deep form of it.

He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear strings amenable to transmission through that inadequate medium, language.

My Prince, Gavin thought, I seriously question your judgment.

Was one head dominant, or did they serve different functions?

Will thought of Hell, and a quiet garden, and tried not to let the troll see the cold sweat that dewed his forehead.

A plan was forming in her mind. She didn't look at the idea too closely, lest she startle it away.