Quotes About Thought

When you're writing, you're putting thought into what you want to express, and then you come up with it - it comes to you. When you're improvising, it's the same thing. You're writing. You just say it out loud right then, instead of saying, 'You think this might work?'

The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

Independent film is film that has thought in it. There's no independent thought in studio films. It's collective thought.

There's nothing scarier than groupthink.

Poi nella sua spina dorsale si spiralò, lunga e lenta, l'onda della paura della battaglia ripensata.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

There is a restless endeavour in the mind of man after Happiness. This appetite is wrought into the original frame of our nature, and exerts itself in all parts of the creation that are endued with any degree of thought or sense. But, as the human mind is dignified by a more comprehensive faculty than can be found in the inferior animals, it is natural for men not only to have an eye each to his own happiness, but also to endeavour to promote that of others.

The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought.

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

It is not matter that creates an illusion of consciousness, but consciousness that creates an illusion of matter.

Ce que l'imaginaire fabrique devient réel

To be honest, it felt so distant from us, we din't give it much thought. Our world was made up of our immediate neighbours and foreign meant the people of the midlands or fenlands.

Every new thought suggestive or explanatory of it is crowned by him, and by it he forms a new heaven. It is said that whenever a man gives expression to such a word it ascends at once into the divine presence, who taketh and embraceth it and adorneth it with seventy crowns, all engraveth with his holy name.

Art actually happens somewhere in the space between clarity and ambiguity, concept and intuition, thought and feeling.

Thinking is one of the greatest pleasures of the human race.

Think with feeling

He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought

A Man lives off his head. His head won't see him through. Inspect your own— What lives on that? At most, a louse or two . . .

Das Denken gehört zu den größten Vergnügungen der menschlichen Rasse.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.