Quotes About Thought

It's been a very strange thing to see the attention my clothes have gotten, just because it's so inversely related to the amount of thought I put into them.

Acting is even stranger than I thought it would be.

I laughed and discovered something that has served me well since: the more we threaten thought and language with silence, or simply seek to demote them in our lives from the ludicrous pedestal on which our culture and background have placed them, then the more fertile, in their need to justify and assert themselves, they become. Reflection is never more exciting than when reflecting on the damage reflection does, language never more seductive than when acknowledging its unreality.

lost much. The thought of my body's chirality

any and all information that one consumes - pays attention to - will have some influence, even if just forcing a reaction. That idea, in turn, has a very radical implication, for it suggests that sometimes we overestimate our own capacity for truly independent thought.

Ludwig Wittgenstein,

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."—John F. Kennedy

We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."—John F. Kennedy

The underlying solution - repeated again and again - is to recognize that your brain is producing the visions. They do not exist. Nothing exists except as your consciousness gives it life.

la «forma» del pensamiento ecológico es al menos tan importante como su «contenido».

Like our Eastern counterpart's, the goal of the Western style of meditation is that of bypassing the critical thinking mind and its processes. But instead of doing so with stillness, it accomplishes the same task with activity and imagery.

More than half a century ago, the classic novels of totalitarianism warned of the domination of screens, the suppression of books, the narrowing of vocabularies, and the associated difficulties of thought.

Vienna School merges with the thought of Ayn Rand. She believed that competition was the meaning of life itself; Hitler said much the same thing. Such reductionism, although temptingly elegant, is fatal. If nothing matters but competition, then it is natural to eliminate people who resist it and institutions that prevent it.

When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework.

This is why one cannot think the society of prohibition without the imaginary housing the image of the denied enjoyment. This image is what allows subjects in the society of prohibition to sustain themselves in the midst of their dissatisfaction.

Hegel] sees that no principles is sustainable as a first principle since it implicitly relies on other principles in order to distinguish itself.

The death drive is the revolutionary contribution contribution psychoanalysis makes to political thought.

The act of articulating a system of thought implies the belief that a better world is possible and that the knowledge the system provides will assist in realizing the better world.

It condemned The Wave as a dangerous and mindless movement that suppressed freedom of speech and thought and ran against everything the country was founded on.

Many people believe that karma is linear: If you do some terrible (or wonderful) thing, you will receive your just desserts. However, the way it seems to be set up is not as personal as that. You have a thought or take some action, and there is a result. The consequences will be experienced, but not necessarily by you, and nobody knows when.

He's like Stanley Baldwin,' thought Travers: 'I'd rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.' Just

As the early memory researcher Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909) wrote, "Psychology has a long past, but only a short history." He meant that people have been thinking about human thought, emotion, intelligence, and behavior for thousands of years, but as a discipline based on facts rather than speculation psychology is still in its infancy. Even

Science requires a rational audience.

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.