Quotes About Thought

The consciousness of self is not the closing of a door to communication. Philosophic thought teaches us, on the contrary, that it is its guarantee. National consciousness, which is not nationalism, is the only thing that will give us an international dimension.

National culture is the collective thought process of a people to describe, justify, and extol the actions whereby they have joined forces and remained strong. National culture in the underdeveloped countries, therefore, must lie at the very heart of the liberation struggle these countries are waging. (168)

There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.

Ich gebe mir Müh, nichts zu wollen, zu denken.

Las cadenas de la esclavitud sólo atan las manos: es la mente la que hace al hombre libre o esclavo

As the moon without the light of the sun is dark, so likewise the images produced by thought have no power unless they are strengthened by the Will; while the Will is useless unless it is guided and brought into a form by thought. If thought and will are divided, they are both ineffective; but if thought and will are in unison, they become effective; they then constitute a Unity, and this unity is called "Spirit.

This passage indicates the step that Feuerbach has taken from idealism to materialism. He formulates the new thesis with a precision that points forward to Marx, when he says that it is not thought which determines being but, on the contrary, social being which determines the consciousness of men.

The majority con- sensus, however, reached eventually was again expressed clearly and forcefully by al-Ghazzâlî: "The knowledge about (ma- rifah) God is the end of every cognition (ma- rifah) and the fruit of every knowledge (or science, - ilm) according to all schools of thought." There is no true knowledge of God for man, but human knowledge can achieve some realization of His being.

Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.

Quotations are the backbone of much of literature, and of the transmission of art and thought more generally. . . . The delight is our natural response to the monuments of creativity and wisdom, kept alive by quotations, a communal bond uniting us with past culture and with other lovers of words and ideas in our own time.

You can think about things and make believe. All you have to do is think and they'll grow.

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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.

As for conceptual thought, if we grasp the problem as one of escaping from the purely individualizing categories of ethics, of transcending the categories into which our existence as individual subjects necessarily locks us and opening up the radically distinct transindividual perspectives of collective life or historical process, then the conclusion seems unavoidable that we already have the ideal of a thinking able to go beyond good and evil, namely the dialectic itself.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Nur im Irrenhaus sind wir noch frei. Nur im Irrenhaus durfen wir noch denken. In der Freiheit sind unsere Gedanken Sprengstoff.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

For a significant manwoman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

De inimico non loquaris male, sed cogites

The thinking brain influences the body's responses and it makes a neat little loop.

The religions in my portfolio weren't useless after all , he thought, the power flowing from him and remaking the world. None of them were. They weren't all true. But they all had truth.

The God King's wrath, she thought drowsily, is decidedly less wrathful than reported.

Doesn't that bother you?" Kaladin asked. "That you might be a creation of human perception?" "You're a creation of your parents. Who cares how we were born? I can think. That's good enough.