Quotes About Thought

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.

How can I describe my life to you? I think a lot, listen to music. I'm fond of flowers

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

Philosophy is an art form—art of thought or thought as art

Beware of anything that you hear yourself saying often.

It was not a question of knowledge...but of alertness, a fastidious transcription of what could be thought about something, once it swam into the stream of attention.

What we call nihilism (now) I simply call thought. What thinking doesn't lead to nihilism? (pg. 440)

The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.

It is my belief that the World (or, if you will, the House, since the two are for all practical purposes identical) wishes an Inhabitant for Itself to be a witness to its Beauty and the recipient of its Mercies. If I leave, then the House will have no Inhabitant and how will I bear the thought of it Empty?

Propaganda should not stimulate thought, but rather elicit an immediate and deep emotional reaction such as enthusiasm, fear, or hatred.

But it was never possible to forget that Searle was in a room. Why? she kept asking herself. Or rather, why not?

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

She gave this some thought. "Oh,

The clear thinker is suddenly at war with himself and flow is lost.

The creation of the factory required exceptional ingenuity, obsession, and misery. We have inherited its miraculous productive power and long history of exploitation without giving it much thought.

But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

The American tradition of separation of church and state grew directly from the freethinking of the Founders. After political independence, they considered independence of thought and belief a logical next step.

Unfettered thinking generates the thousand. Analytical thinking helps us see the one that works.

To ease me of this power to think, That through my bosom raves, I'll headlong leap from hell's high brink And wallow in its waves.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

It is propitious and gratifying that Fordham University Press has decided to reissue these two volumes of The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce. When first published, in 1969, reviewers and commentators were taken with both the sweep and the depth of Royce's thought.

It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.