Quotes About Thought

I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough.

You know that thing where you're trying to do the crossword puzzle, and you're trying to fit the word that's in your head in the puzzle, and then you go 'Ugh!' and you walk away, and then it comes to you. I'm interested in that moment. The release of expectation, and the release of pleasing yourself and pleasing anybody. Breaking the mindset.

I honestly never thought in my career I was going to do a body-switching movie.

I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.

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

I had thought that maybe I will go into hotel business because our family loves food. And North Indian food is very famous in Hyderabad.

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

When I'd finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston.

No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

I look at things logically. The humor I do is to go from A to B to C to D, and F is the funny.

The theory of thought is like painting: it needs that revolution which took art from representation to abstraction. This is the aim of a theory of thought without image.

philosophy is the discipline that involves creating concepts" .

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

There is always another breath in my breath, another thought in my thought, another possession in what I possess, a thousand things and a thousand beings implicated in my complications: every true thought is an aggression.

It is a serious mistake to think that irrationalism opposes anything but thought to reason - whether it be the rights of the given, of the heart, of feeling, caprice or passion. In irrationalism we are concerned only with thought, only with thinking. What is opposed to reason is thought itself; what is opposed to the reasonable being is the thinker himself.

What we should in fact do, is stop allowing philosophers to reflect 'on' things. The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

Quando alguém pergunta para que serve a filosofia. Fazer enfim do pensamento algo agressivo, ativo e afirmativo. Fazer homens livres, isto é, homens que não confundam os fins da cultura com o proveito do Estado, da moral ou da religião (...).

Mucho más importante que el pensamiento es <>; mucho más importante que el filósofo, el poeta.

Mucho más importante que el pensamiento es lo que da que pensar; mucho más importante que el filósofo, el poeta.

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