Quotes About Thought

Modifying one's s own thought and that of others seems to me to be the intellectual's reason for being

Kafamda doÄŸruluÄŸunu kan?tlad???m bir ÅŸey olduÄŸu için yazm?yorum. Yazmak, baÅŸta fark edemediÄŸim bir ÅŸeyi sonunda bulmam? saÄŸl?yor.

Mais surtout, alors qu'en 1955 Foucault confrontait finalement des « expériences de pensée », en 1966-1968 la terminologie sera celle des « discours » : ce sont les « mutations du discours philosophique » qui seront étudiées.

During the years 1945-1965, there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of political discourse, a certain ethics of the intellectual. One had to be on familiar terms with Marx, not let one's dreams stray too far from Freud.

poetry's favourite moment is when one loses one's footing because of a landslide or seismic shaking of thought

Every abstract idea brings with it an immense economy of thought.

Algorithmic thought arose before the invention of geometry in Greece, and reemerged in Europe with Pascal and Leibniz, who invented two calculating machines and, like Thumbelina, used pseudonyms.

Magic doesn't work like that. You have to have intent and focus, but not think about it. - Aunt Polly

Consciousness determines existence.

Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Either thought is frightening. –ARTHUR C. CLARKE

The two greatest mysteries in all of nature are the mind and the universe.

You plant a seed, a thought, and it grows. The word is like a seed, and the human mind is so fertile! The only problem is that too often it is fertile for the seeds of fear.

We can perceive millions of things simultaneously, but using our attention, we can hold whatever we want to perceive in the foreground of our mind.

The word is not just a sound or a written symbol. The word is a force; it is the power you have to express and communicate, to think, and thereby to create the events in your life.

The mastery of the human mind requires complete control of the attention — the way we interpret and react to information we perceive from inside of us and outside of us.

Cehalet, boÅŸ inançlar gibi sanayinin de anas?d?r. DüÅŸünce ve hayal gücü insan? hataya sürükleyebilir; ama ayak ya da eli hareket ettirme al??kanl??? bunlardan ne birini ne diÄŸerini gerektirir. Dolay?s?yla manifaktürler, en büyük geliÅŸme olanaklar?na, akla en az baÅŸvurulan yerlerde kavuÅŸur." Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society

Jednak?e m?drzy ludzie w tym w?a?nie celu maj? rozum, ?eby si? nim pos?ugiwa? w podobnie skomplikowanych przypadkach.

Why, when all's said and done, do I have to think up a pretext for my every action? I mean, it really is torment, not a life!

The thought that there is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason? Yes

He's clever, thought Ivan. You have to admit, there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia. No denying that!

The thought that there is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason? Yes, yes, of course, that, too. But that - that's only a general thought. There's something else. What is it? An insult, that's what. Yes, yes, insulting words hurled right in his face by Homeless. And the trouble is not that they were insulting, but that there was truth in them.

The thought that there is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason?

For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.

A long time ago, man would listen in amazement to the sound of regular beats in his chest, never suspecting what they were. He was unable to identify himself with so alien and unfamiliar an object as the body. The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought, and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul.