Quotes About Thought

century: "As man imagines himself to be, so shall he be, and he is that which he imagines.

Damals dachte ich zum ersten Mal daran, mit Stella zu leben. Es war ein jäher, ein tollkühner Gedanke, und heute weiß ich, es war ein in mancher Hinsicht unangemessener Gedanke, der nur entstehen konnte aus der Befürchtung, daß das, was mich mit Stella verband, ein Ende haben könnte. Wie selbstverständlich diese Sehnsucht nach Dauer aufkommt.

Creo que esa falta esencial de recuerdos, en mi caso, no provenía de una falta de memoria: creo que mi pensamiento, ocupado en adivinar el futuro, tan lleno de imágenes, no podía demorarse en el pasado.

Lifetimes went past. With the critical mass of hardly more than the thought of a thought I kept on, headlong, to vanishing point. I looked for an end, for some dimension to hold hard and resist. But I still exist.

Since there is no telling in advance where it may lead, reflection can be seen as dangerous.

To process thoughts well is a matter of being able to avoid confusion, detect ambiguities, keep things in mind one at a time, make reliable arguments, become aware of alternatives, and so on.

Reflection matters because it is continuous with practice. How you think about what you are doing affects how you do it, or whether you do it at all.

A system of thought is something we live in, just as much as a house, and if our intellectual house is cramped and confined, we need to know what better structures are possible. The

So the middle-ground answer reminds us that reflection is continuous with practice, and our practice can go worse or better according to the value of our reflections. A system of thought is something we live in, just as much as a house, and if our intellectual house is cramped and confined, we need to know what better structures are possible

The chasm between French Jacobinism and British liberalism is not as wide as it seems: both are assimilatory modes of thought rooted in the Enlightenment.

Maths is one of the purest forms of thought, and to outsiders mathematicians may seem almost other-worldly.

Slowly, silently, I reach out and slip the glass out of her hand. "What do you think you're doing?" The old lady's voice startles me and I jump back. Mrs. Reynolds has one eye open like tha guy from the cartoon monster movie. "I, uh, thought you were napping." "Do I look like I'm napping?" "Right now you don't.

The stuff of the world is mind-stuff.

Quien no quiere pensar es un fanático; quien no puede pensar es un idiota; quien no osa pensar es un cobarde.

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

There is no God, no man-made God; a bigger, stronger, crueller man; Black phantom of our baby-fears, ere Thought, the life of Life, began.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Una mujer sentada junto a la ventana. Piensa / y mientras piensa, desespera / desespera por ser quien es / y no otra persona.

My father once asked me if I knew where yonder was. I said I thought yonder was another word for there. He smiled and said, "No, yonder is between here and there.

Very simply, for the mind, absence can be a catalyst for presence.

The truth is that what fascinates me is not so much being in a place as not being there: how places live in the mind once you have left them, how they are imagined before you arrive, or how they are seemingly called out of nothing to illustrate a thought or story like my tree down yonder. These mental spaces map our Innes lives more fully than any "real" map, delineating the borders of here and there that also shape what we see in the present.

Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.

The laws are very simple: thought is creative; fear attracts like energy; love is all there is.