Quotes About Thought

all human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.

Toute intuition sans concept n'aboutit pas Tout concept sans intuition est vide

Habe den Mut, dich deines eigenen Verstandes zu bedienen.

To think an object, then, is not the same as to know an object.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

The public use of one's reason must always be free, and it alone can bring about enlightenment among men.

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La felicidad no brota de la razón sino de la imaginación (Immanuel Kant)

Philosophy may be said to contain the principles of the rational cognition that concepts

We cannot think a line without drawing it in thought; we cannot think a circle without describing it; we cannot represent, at all, the three dimensions of space without placing, from the same point, three lines perpendicularly to one another; we cannot even represent time, except by attending, while drawing a straight line [...]

reason only perceives that which it produces after its own design;

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.

Only the deeper parts of the mind have so little sense of time.

thinking about the misery of the world is a favourite contemporary occupation. and if you can't think the television set will think for you.

And she wondered now how she could go on existing through the successive moments of her life.

Could one think so intensely of someone and not be visited?

You daren't think, so you live in a dream.

I'd like to to know what it is he's after, I mean, is it an experience or a thought, is it something you'd put in a book, or die for, or die of?

He saw moving pictures. It was not quite like remembering.

Wittgenstein has created a void into which neo-Kantianism, existentialism, utilitarianism have made haste to enter.

She had loved him, she thought now, because, just at that time, she had had to have something else, someone else, to love, a private place for wounded love to go. But that had been, as she had then suspected and now knew, a device, a dream.

Perhaps he would achieve some sort of peace, the peace of an elderly man, a peace of cosy retirement without angels. Without women too, he thought.

This thought was so heavy with despair that she almost began to cry again.