Quotes About Thought

My dear Pepper," said Ellery, "that is the curse of my composition. I'm always thinking. I'm pursued by what Byron in Childe Harold—you recall that magnificent first canto?—saw fit to call, 'The blight of life—the demon Thought.

The limits of our cognition are not defined by the limits of our language.

Perhaps thought really is prayer.

Pero volvamos al aire y la luz de la primavera, que deberían ser los únicos protagonistas. Se trataba de una luz incomprensible. Siendo así que la adolescencia consiste en ese aire que no es posible explicarse. Podría escribirse en esa luz (ya que no es posible escribir sobre esa luz), conseguir que la suave carne de pomelo de esa luz quedase inscrita, en cierto modo «pensada». Aún está por ver si se puede, si yo puedo.

Se ripercorro col pensiero, adesso, fin dal principio, tutta la mia storia con N., imparo che il cuore, nelle sue gare contro la coscienza, è estroso, avveduto e fantastico quanto un maestro costumista. Per creare le sue maschere, gli basta magari una trovata da niente; a volte, per travestire le cose, sostituisce semplicemente una parola con un'altra... E la coscienza si aggira in questo gioco bizzarro come uno straniero a un ballo mascherato, fra i fumi del vino.

El miedo lleva al pensamiento por caminos inesperados.

Vision is defined as the mental picture or image of what the future could be or would look like. It can also be defined as one's concept, thought or imagination at a given period of time. It is synonymous with fantasy. -Emeasoba George

Theology is an assault on the sin-distorted intellect; it is the obedience penetrating the realm of thought.

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

In all the edifices of thought, I have found no category on which to rest my head. Whereas Chaos—there's a pillow!

Nu pot fi fericiÅ£i decât oamenii care nu gândesc nimic, adic? aceia care gândesc numai cât trebuie vieÅ£ii.

After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams. Thus sleep's labor not only diminishes the power of our thought, but even that of our secrets.

The sphere of consciousness shrinks in action; no one who acts can lay claim to the universal, for to act is to cling to the properties of being at the expense of being itself, to a form of reality to reality's detriment.

Tot ce este formulat, este ca intensitate degradat.

To have solely one thought, but it to be capable of destroy the universe

Orice idee e exagerare. A gândi înseamn? a exagera.

Nothing desiccates a mind so much as its repugnance to conceive obscure ideas.

Nu exist? nici o soluÈ›ie pentru nimic, iat? premisa de la care ar trebui s? plec?m cu toÈ›i în construcÈ›ia actelor È™i gândurilor. În realitate, tot ce facem È™i gândim purcede din negaÈ›ia acestei premise.

Not to have been born, merely musing on that - what freedom, what space!

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation

Dintre filosofi nu sunt interesanÈ›i decât cei care nemaiavând ce gândi s-au apucat s? caute fericirea.

Style is the mind's architecture.

Gândul la Dumnezeu este un obstacol sinuciderii, dar nu morÈ›ii . El nu imblanzeste deloc întunericul de care se va fi speriat Dumnezeu pe vremea când îÈ™i caut? pulsul prin teroarea nimicului...