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Quotes About Thought

No se había comprendido por completo que la desaparición de la libertad económica tendría algún efecto sobre la libertad intelectual.
~ George Orwell
These three had elaborated old Major's teachings into a complete system of thought, to which they gave the name of Animalism.
~ George Orwell
He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it. He realized, nevertheless, that it ought never to have occurred to him. The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.
~ George Orwell
Wszystko istnieje wy??cznie dzi?ki naszej ?wiadomo?ci.
~ George Orwell
Gerçek tek hayat?m?z gelecektedir. Onun oluÅŸmas?nda bizler kemik parçalar?y?z. GeleceÄŸin ne kadar uzakta olduÄŸunu bilemeyiz. Belki bin y?l sonrad?r. Åžimdi, ak?lc? düÅŸünenlerin say?s?n? azar azar coÄŸaltmaktan baÅŸka yapabileceÄŸimiz bir ÅŸey yok.
~ George Orwell
BaÄŸl?l?k, düÅŸünmemek demektir, düÅŸünmeye gerek duymamak demektir. BaÄŸl?l?k bilinçsizliktir.
~ George Orwell
El hecho de escribir ABAJO EL GRAN HERMANO o no escribirlo, era completamente igual. Seguir con el diario o renunciar a escribirlo, venía a ser lo mismo. La Policía del Pensamiento lo descubriría de todas maneras
~ George Orwell
Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller
~ George Orwell
To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone — to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!
~ George Orwell
Science and technology were developing at a prodigious speed, and it seemed natural to assume that they would go on developing. This failed to happen, partly because of the impoverishment caused by a long series of wars and revolutions, partly because scientific and technical progress depended on the empirical habit of thought, which could not survive in a strictly regimented society.
~ George Orwell
Kobbi, thou bringest to me a rare thought. A new light gleamed in Bansir's eyes. It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend
~ George S. Clason
My sons think only of spending and give no thought to earning. My
~ George S. Clason
The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works
~ George S. Clason
He thought of nothing he could say.
~ George S. Clason
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
~ George Santayana
We consider speech to be the result of thought (we have a thought, then select a sentence with which to express it), but thought also results from speech (as we grope, in words, toward meaning, we discover what we think).
~ George Saunders
I had my moments. My free, uninterrupted, discretionary moments. Strange, though: it is the memory of those moments that bothers me the most. The thought, specifically, that other men enjoyed whole lifetimes comprised of such moments. (Thomas Havens)
~ George Saunders
In the beginning, there's a blank mind. Then that mind gets an idea in it, and the trouble begins, because the mind mistakes the idea for the world.
~ George Saunders
Why must all nighttime farm windows be orange? is a sweet mystery to think upon as down to sleep you
~ George Saunders
You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn't? she thought.
~ George Saunders
Los idiolectos del pensamiento, las privacidades de lo no dicho son de un orden mucho más profundo e inalcanzable.
~ George Steiner
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
~ George Washington
TO WHOM LIFE IS AN EXPERIENCE TO BE CARRIED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE... I have not meant to express my thought but to help you clarify what you yourself think... You are not any more different from me than your right leg is from your left, but what joins us is THE SLEEP OF REASON—WHICH PRODUCES MONSTERS. —Theory of Religion
~ Georges Bataille
Lo serio, la muerte y el dolor fundan la verdad obtusa. Pero lo serio de la muerte y el dolor es la servidumbre del pensamiento.
~ Georges Bataille