Quotes About Thought

and led me to finally recognise that I was but an automaton devoid of free will in thought and action and merely responsible to the forces of the environment.

I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labor, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours.

WITH CLARITY and quiet, I look upon the world and say: All that I see, hear, taste, smell, and touch are the creations of my mind.

A blush of breeze rose from the grass. Jacob felt as if an angel's wing had beat against his cheek. He touched his cheek slowly. He felt embarrassed by the thought. That I should think an angel came to me. He wept. And, again, the brush of breeze against his cheek.

Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision.

There's no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.

Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions

the terms of political discourse are designed so as to prevent thought.

No doubt a propaganda system is more effective when its doctrines are insinuated rather than asserted, when it sets the bounds for possible thought rather than simply imposing a clear and easily identifiable doctrine that one must parrot—or suffer the consequences.

There are any number of questions that might lead one to undertake a study of language. Personally, I am primarily intrigued by the possibility of learning something, from the study of language, that will bring to light inherent properties of the human mind.

An essential mechanism of censorship, in Orwell's view, is a good education. If you've gone to the best schools, you have instilled into you the understanding that there are certain things it wouldn't do to say, or, we may add, even to think. It all becomes part of your being. And if you're a good student and have properly absorbed the lessons, you can become a responsible intellectual. That's the unpublished preface to Animal Farm.

Consciousness is some kind of peripheral thing which picks up some of what's going on in our head.

An independent mind must seek to separate itself from official doctrine –and from the criticism advanced by its alleged opponent.

What a world, what a world. Who would have thought that. some little girl like you could. destroy my beautiful wickedness. - Wicket Witch of the West

moment, thought, what the hell?

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Don't complicate the simple, Lenore, he told her, thinking aloud. It usually manages to complicate itself. ---Nora Roberts Second Nature

I expect sometimes both tend, and other times one may tend more as the other forgets for a bit, then it might shift over again." It was all a matter of balance, he thought, with some care and effort tossed in.

We can know what we know about God because thought applies to reality. In that context, knowledge is possible. If thought does not apply to reality, then we can know nothing. Logic is a necessary presupposition of all thought. Without logic (the laws of thought), we can't even think

The Law of Noncontradiction is a self-evident first principle of thought that says contradictory claims cannot both be true at the same time in the same sense.

Einstein said that he wanted "to know how God created the world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thought, the rest are details."3

That's how you know when you have thought too much-- when you become a dialogue between You'll probably lose and You're sure to lose.

I tend to equate sadness with intelligence.

And maybe men say they're glad not to give birth, all the pain and blood, but really that's just so much sour grapes. For sure, men can't do anything near as incredible. Upper body strength, abstract thought, phalluses—any advantages men appear to have are pretty token. You can't even hammer a nail with a phallus.