Quotes About Thought

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.

If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?

But this was how the mind worked. The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial. Because it was through trivia that the mind was anchored in reality, as the largest oak tree was rooted, ultimately, in a system of rootlets no larger than the silver hairs on the president's head.

He meant rather that the evolution of our minds from bits of inanimate matter was more beautiful and more extraordinary than any of the miracles cataloged down through the ages by the religions of our world. And so he had an instinctive skepticism of any system of thought, religious or theorical, that pretended to encompass that miracle, and in so doing sought to draw limits around it.

One of the great virtues of Confucianism was its suppleness. Western political thought tended to be rather brittle; as soon as the state became corrupt, everything ceased to make sense. Confucianism always retained its equilibrium, like a cork that could float as well in spring water or raw sewage.

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I did not wish to be summoned by your Princess. Summoned, I did not wish to come. But having been summoned, and having come, I mean to give a good account of myself. That's how I was taught by my father, and the men of his age who slew Kings and swept away not merely Governments but whole Systems of Thought, like Khans of the Mind.

The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial. Because it was through trivia that the mind was anchored in reality […]

The ability of our consciousness to see—not just as a speelycaptor sees (by taking in and recording givens) but identifying things—copper bowls, melodies, faces, beauty, ideas—and making these things available to cognition—that ability, Atamant said, is the ultimate basis of all rational thought.

Uh, it's not something I have given much thought to," he says. "Is that what we are about now? Are we going to establish a new currency?" "Well obviously someone needs to establish one that doesn't suck," Avi says. "Is this some exercise in keeping a straight face?" Randy asks.

As George Steiner summarizes it, relativists tend to believe that language is not the vehicle of thought but its determining medium. It is the framework of cognition. Our perceptions of everything are organized by the flux of sensations passing over that framework. Hence, the study of the evolution of language is the study of the evolution of the human mind itself.

But more importantly, it comes out of the fact that, during this century, intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it.

Perception and thought are properties of souls. It is no worse to posit that the fundamental building-block of the Universe is souls than to say it is wee bits of hard stuff, moving about in an empty space that is pervaded by mystickal Fields.

Every human thought, word, or deed is based on fear or love. Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, hides, hoards, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, reveals, shares, heals. You have free choice about which of these to select.

Mine is always your Highest Thought, your Clearest Word, your Grandest Feeling. Anything less is from another source.

Thought is creative - Fear attracts like energy - Love is all there is.

For you are the creator of your reality, and life can show up no other way for you than that way in which you think it will.

It is all a question of perception. When you change your perception, you change your thought, and your thought creates your reality. Whatever outcome you could anticipate in any situation is already there for you. All

The Laws are very simple. Thought is creative. Fear attracts like energy. Love is all there is.

In the creation of individual reality, thought control, or what some might call prayer—is everything. Prayer? Thought control is the highest form of prayer. Therefore, think only on good things, and righteous. Dwell

The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love. Joy, truth, love.

Fear is an emotion that you have that is sponsored by a thought that you have, which produces an experience that you have of an event that has occurred in your life.

Y este lapso de "tiempo" entre el pensamiento y la creación —el cual puede ser de días, semanas, meses e incluso años— es el que crea la ilusión de que las cosas te están sucediendo a ti, no debido a ti. Ésta es una ilusión, que provoca que olvides que tú eres la causa de este asunto.