Quotes About Thought

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

Never trust any thought arrived at sitting down.

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?

You conquer fate by thought.

There is no more Herculean task than to think a thought about this life and then get it expressed.

It should not be by their architecture, but why not even by their power of abstract thought, that nations should seek to commemorate themselves? How much more admirable the Bhagvat-Geeta than all the ruins of the East! Towers and temples are the luxury of princes. A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince. Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, nor is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.

My residence was more favorable, not only to thought, but to serious reading, than a university;

The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.

but why not even by their power of abstract thought, that nations should seek to commemorate themselves?

The philosopher said: "From an army of three divisions one can take away its general, and put it in disorder; from the man the most abject and vulgar one cannot take away his thought.

L'hésitation est le propre de l'intelligence.

un poco de filosofía inclina la mente humana al ateísmo, pero una filosofía profunda le conduce a la religión».

She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action.

Susie had an intense thought and then an effusion. 'My dear child, we move in a labyrinth.' 'Of course we do. That's just the fun of it!' said Milly with a strange gaiety. Then she added: 'Don't tell me that—in this for instance—there are not abysses. I want abysses.

She kept her eyes on her book and tried to fix her mind. It had lately occurred to her that her mind was a good deal of a vagabond, and she had spent much ingenuity in training it to a military step and teaching it to advance, to halt, to retreat, to perform even more complicated maneuvers, at the word of command. Just now she had given it marching orders and it had been trudging over the sandy plains of a history of German Thought

It was the idea . . . that led me straight out . . . of the inner chamber of my dread.

Ah yes, there had been intention, there had been intention, Isabel said to herself; and she seemed to wake from a long pernicious dream.

For Isabel, however, there was of course as of yet no thought of getting out, but only of advancing.

It was always the case for him in these counsels that each of his remarks, as it came, seemed to drop into a deeper well. He had at all events to wait a moment to hear the slight splash of this one.

He found himself supposing innumerable and wonderful things.

ja znam da sloboda zna?i odgovornost.isto tako znam kako se lako želja može pretvoriti u ?in. ?ak i kad sklopim o?i, moram paziti kako sanjam i o ?emu, jer samo najtanji veo deli tada san od jave.

The great incestuous wish is to flow on, one with time, to merge the great image of the beyond with the here and now. A fatuous, suicidal wish that is constipated by words and paralyzed by thought.

In the four hundred years since the last devouring soul appeared; the last man to know the meaning of ecstasy, there has been a constant and steady decline of man in art, in thought, in action. The world is pooped out: there isn't a dry fart left.

La vida se extiende de momento en momento en una infinitud prodigiosa. Nada puede ser más real que lo que supones serlo. El cosmos es lo que quiera que pienses que es y en modo alguno podría ser otra cosa, mientras tú seas tú y yo sea yo. Vives en los frutos de tu acción es la cosecha de tu pensamiento.