Quotes About Thought

Comme la pensée collective ne peut exister comme pensée, elle passe dans les choses (signes, machines...). D'où ce paradoxe : c'est la chose qui pense et l'homme qui est réduit à l'état de chose

Si on trouve la plénitude de la joie dans la pensée que Dieu est, il faut trouver la même plénitude dans la connaissance que soi-même on n'est pas, car c'est la même pensée. Et cette connaissance n'est étendue à la sensibilité que par la souffrance et la mort.

Yet all this while the power of thought, the pull of conscience, were feeble beside Alverna's youth. It was his first love; the first time in his life that he had been roused to through away caution and dignity.

All of them agreed that the working-classes must be kept in their place; and all of them perceived that American Democracy did not imply any equality of wealth, but did demand a wholesome sameness of thought, dress, painting, morals, and vocabulary.

It was clear that the composer no longer consoled himself with the thought that music could express everything and did not require verbal commentary.

I wondered if [people] weren't psychic because they didn't have the ability, or because they didn't want to have it. [...] Later I'd come to understand how negative behavior and thought patterns block people from their psychic sense.

We're all confused, Samantha. We all need more time to think. That's life. Get over it.

See how I stopped mid-sentence? I can do it too. When I don't necessarily want to reveal the exact thought I'm having.

Those swift to think are not always secure.

Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.

If I thought you would blurt out such absurdities, you'd have died waiting before I'd had you summoned.

Look, if you think crude, mindless stubbornness such a gift, you've lost your sense of balance

and there is no sword of thought to save us

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.

How much weight can carry a thought which does not acknowledge that it is an illusion?

Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

My mind struggled to formulate a coherent though, any thought. I opened my mouth. "Your pajamas have Eeyore on them." "I like Eeyore. He's sensible. A sober outlook on life never hurt anyone.

And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".

I sat. And I thought. And the more I thought, connecting the events in my life, the more my heart collapsed.

When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations.

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.