Quotes About Thought

he begins with the assumption that there is, in the final analysis, one single question for human thought at every time and in every place: whether, and tinder what conditions, the world can be affirmed in all its finitude. As is evident here, the value that von Balthasar attaches to the work of a thinker is ultimately determined by his answer to this question.16

The individual' is an idea like other ideas.

Mrs. Gunness, the paper declared, was "now thought to be still alive."[

He had never thought that a fugitive might be a hapless mother, a defenceless child,—like

Many times during your life you've heard or seen something that caused you to snap your fingers and say, "Oh, that reminds me.…" And, usually, the thing that reminded you of something had nothing to do with what it reminded you of. Somewhere back in your mind an absurd or random association had been made.

Actually, you can't think without seeing pictures. Aristotle said it, centuries ago—one of his books opened with this sentence: "It is impossible even to think without a mental picture.

You are absentminded when your mind is absent; when you perform actions unconsciously, without thinking. We've discussed the difference between seeing and observing—we see with our eyes, but we observe with our minds. If your mind is "absent" when performing an action, there can be no observation; more important, there can be no Original Awareness.

That question is too good to spoil with an answer.

De wereld was soep en het denken meestal een vork: tot smakelijk eten leidde dat zelden.

Thought was slower than anger to flower into action, but it was a hardy perennial. It did not bloom and die.

When you thought of permanent oblivion, temporary oblivion was the only foxhole you had.

COMPARISON OF THE CONSCIOUS MIND AND THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

We live not in the world outside, but in a world inside ourselves.

Man lives by imagination.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

As soon as thought is restricted, it ceases to be Sufism.

Every motion contains within itself a thought and feeling.

Premoderns placed their trust in authority. Moderns lost their confidence in authority and placed it in human reason instead. Postmoderns kept the modern distrust of authority but lost their trust in reason and have found nothing to replace it. This is the crux of all postmodern thought.

She wanted to give him toast. The sort that had melted butter and a bit of honey spread on top. It was a stupid thought, but there was something comforting about toast.

Oh, Lord, she thought. This was crazy. She was being haunted by one ghost and guarded by another.

I'd open the door in the morning and the slightly sweet smell of second hand books would greet me. For years I wondered just what that smell was. In the end I decided it was the smell of human thought embedded in paper.

If you are waiting for a message, know that it is already moving through you. You do not have to think. You do not have to know. You do not have to understand. All you have to do is release and go with the flow.

However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.