Quotes About Thought

The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to trurh.

an idea is a combination of other ideas.

Religion by its very principle is not always logical; in essence, faith is believing in something you cannot understand with rational thought.

For each individual among the many has a share of excellence and practical wisdom, and when they meet together, just as they become in a manner one man, who has many feet, and hands, and senses, so too with regard to their character and thought. Hence the many are better judges than a single man of music and poetry, for some understand one part, and some another, and among them they understand the whole. (Aristotle, Politics, book 3, chapter 11)

You are beyond mad," said Locke after several moments of silent, furious thought. "Full-on barking madness is a state of rational bliss to which you may not aspire. Men living in gutters and drinking their own piss would shun your company. You are a prancing lunatic.

I don't want to spend the rest of the day interrupting your questions, so I'm going to temporarily forget how to make words come out of my mouth.

All the things we experience in life can be separated into two realms, the realm of the concept and the realm of the senses.

To be a "thing" that thinks and moves and wants...that's MIRACULOUS.

Q: Why did the blonde put lipstick on her forehead? A: Because she was trying to make up her mind.

No house is born bad. Most are thought of fondly, even lovingly. In the beginning, the house on Kill Creek was no exception.

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

More than loud acclaim, I love Books, silence, thought, my alcove. Pangur Bán Poem by Anon Irish Monk, Translated by Seamus Heaney

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.

Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.

All thought is energy. All things are in motion. All time is now.

My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.

I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else.

I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though most of the time the supernatural never actually appears on stage.

Usually my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.

I felt like on one hand the clarity of thought was amazing, but on the other we went during Antarctic summer, so the sun didn't set the whole time we were there.

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most of my time writing - in thought.

Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.

We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.