Quotes About Thought

47. Attached By Each Other Float into the air of idea and disappear into the thin wind of thought. Where then is body that comes from soil and flesh that belongs with flesh? Touch earth. Smell its fragrance. Taste its flavours. Man and woman are attached by each other to earth.

If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears and levers working away, and we would be able to describe their workings completely, in mechanical terms, thereby completely describing the thought processes of the brain. But that description would nowhere contain any mention of thought! It would contain nothing but descriptions of pumps, pistons, levers! —G. W. LEIBNIZ (1646–1716)

Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle—they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments. —ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD

a mind is a brain that is conscious.

There is in the soul a desire for not thinking. For being still. Coupled with this a desire to be strict, yes, and rigorous. But the soul is also a smooth son of a bitch, not always trustworthy. And I forgot that.

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires.

From a biological perspective, motivation is a process that "determines how much energy and attention the brain and body assign to a given stimulus—whether it's a thought coming in or a situation that confronts one

The lengths that post-analytical philosophers of mind have gone to in order to avoid acknowledging contents of consciousness have been extraordinary.

But even those who locate the roots of consciousness in the brain should still recognize that brains together create a space that cannot be stuffed back into the brain.

The first time I thought about buying my own clothes was the first time I had money to do so.

I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.

Apart from 'Stoned,' I can't think of a film that's made me think, 'Blimey, that should have been at Cannes.'

Thought, not money, is the real business capital.

When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?

Before I was cast for 'Brothers,' we all knew that Karan Johar was looking for an actress for to play a mother's role. I never thought that he would think of casting me.

I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.

Through the confessional system, the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.

Censorship constrains art and limits its impact as much as it does with all free thought.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.

You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

I think Churchill would have thought it extraordinary that we would have thought ourselves so successful, so powerful, so well thought of in the world that we could afford to give up this extraordinary relationship we have in this great European Union.