Quotes About Thought

probabilities of uncertain events can be mathematically described and manipulated—but are in fact not obvious at all. If they were, they would not have arrived so late in the history of human thought.

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to be assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement." —BERTRAND RUSSELL, "The Study of Mathematics" (1902)

One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture

Te haré sentir todos los placeres, pero no puedo hacerte pensar.

O Sem-Pernas ficava pensando. E achava que a alegria daquela liberdade era pouca para a desgraça daquela vida.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Life itself is a quotation.

If Baudelaire had made out among the hieroglyphics of the soul the critical age of thought and feeling, it was Poe who, in the sphere of morbid psychology, had carried out the closest scrutiny of the will.

Amid the solitude in which he lived, without new nourishment, without any fresh experiences, without any renovation of thought, without that exchange of sensations common to society, in this unnatural confinement in which he persisted, all the questionings forgotten during his stay in Paris were revived as active irritants.

Sin libertad de pensamiento, la libertad de expresión no tiene ningún valor

On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.

The abstract is no more than an instrument, an organ, to see the concrete clearly.

Let others think what they like: for me, the culmination of life consists of a pure and subtly dramatic passion.

La universidad ha arruinado desde hace generaciones la vitalidad del pensamiento y queda ya solo su momia y su esqueleto, como algo que se enseña de tal hora a tal hora. Pensar es otra cosa. Es terror, entusiasmo, desazón, curiosidad, profunda delicia, exaltación... es lo qu ese produce cuando el vivir se estira, se acrece y siendo vivir es más que vivir Ortega y Gasset A la Biografia de Jordi Gracia

La libertad de espíritu (...) se mide por su capacidad de disociar ideas tradicionalmente inseparables

Wherever in this sublunary world philosophy is absent, there reigns somnambulism

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

When a people holds onto its language, it holds onto a semblance of freedom, like a man who holds onto his independence when he retains his own way of thinking. Language is the thought of a people.

Take care that your philosophy does not outpace your thought.

The spring thinks, the stream runs.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.