Quotes About Thought

the mind is a neural computer

Had Stendhal believed in eternity? He had written that a person, no

Art was disgusting. It led to thought, and thought led to dissatisfaction, which in turn led to rebellion.

Doubt leads to thought, thought leads to failure. Now

forgotten how

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree of success in treating the philosophical and scientific problems of its own day.

There is an important feature of modern science that is almost completely missing in all the thinkers I have mentioned, from Thales to Plato: none of them attempted to verify or even (aside perhaps from Zeno) seriously to justify their speculations. In

The idea that memes exist is a meme meme.

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.

Coffeehouses were considered to be such hotbeds of revolutionary thought that rulers from Turkey to England outlawed them, sometimes on pain of death.

Det är nutidsmänniskans tragik att hon har upphört att våga vara rädd. Det är ödesdigert för därmed följer att hon också successivt tvingas sluta med att tänka.

You must learn and remember that where your intention goes, so energy flows.

How quaint my imagination has been, she thought. Foy killed it. She showed me too much and destroyed my capacity to dream.

Dwell in the darkness of thought and drink of the poison of life.

Once I had departed Hadith's presence, my awe of her had lessened but it left a patent residue behind. The thought of the pale, enchanting woman, with her hint of hidden menace, made me feel absurdly excied. I did not want to see her again, exactly, but I wanted to think about her all the time.

I was not sad to leave the banquet, for my evening had been poisoned at the thought of this thorn that had come to embed itself in Alofel's flesh.

Was there pleasure to be found in the jaws of the fox? That would make a good first line, she thought, and repeated it over and over in her head so as not to forget it.

He knew that he'd accepted the past, but he did not relish its return. Out here, he was safe from it, or so he'd thought.

He pretended he'd been deep in thought, and took a few seconds to answer me.

The thought of facing Owen Winter's satyr smile by candlelight was chilling.

It is possible to create physical matter, or at least a convincing illusion of such, by the power of thought alone.

My dalliance with these waifs might be short, Othman thought, but not without refreshment.