Quotes About Thought

He answered with a smile. The darkest and most malignant I had ever seen, too strong to be voluntary. The door, I thought. The door. But I didn't dare turn to it, in case it wasn't there.

He told me that the difference between him and other people was that other people would only think about kicking me in the shins whenever I used a long word, but he went ahead and took action.

An untrained mind can accomplish nothing. It is the purpose of these exercises to train the mind to think along the lines which the course sets forth.

5 No hay un dador y un receptor en el sentido en el que el mundo los concibe. 6 Hay un dador que conserva lo que da, y otro que también habrá de dar. 7 Y ambos ganarán en este intercambio, pues cada uno de ellos dispondrá del pensamiento en la forma que le resulte más útil.

Ahora somos uno en pensamiento, pues el miedo ha desaparecido.

ante el altar a un solo Dios, a un solo Padre, a un solo Creador y a un solo Pensamiento, nos alzamos juntos como el único Hijo de Dios.

is that you are responsible for what you think because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice.

7 El sacrificio es un elemento tan esencial en tu sistema de pensamiento, que la idea de salvación sin tener que hacer algún sacrificio no significa nada para ti.

Valuing freedom of thought above all things as the only way of reaching at some future time that Wisdom, of which every Theosophist ought to be enamored, we recognize the right to the same freedom in our foes as in our friends.

I should die some day. Had I ever thought of it? I reflected. No, I had never thought of it. I could not. You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Social thought is unable not to keep its original structure.

le cerveau ne détermine pas la pensée ; et par conséquent la pensée, en grande partie du moins, est indépendante du cerveau.

Mais, si le souvenir n'a pas été emmagasiné par le cerveau, où donc se conserve-t-il ? - A vrai dire, je ne suis pas sûr que la question "où" ait encore un sens quand on ne parle plus d'un corps.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

In the beginning was the Topos. Before – long before – the advent of the Logos, in the chiaroscuro realm of primitive life, lived experience already possessed its internal rationality; this experience was producing long before thought space, and spatial thought, began reproducing the projection, explosion, image and orientation of the body.

But this idea, after a few quick triturations, would in turn become dangerous, for is there anything in a word which cannot be turned into a dagger?

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? of mind.

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

Action is but coarsened thought; thought become concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for truth, who rebels against personal discipline, who hates disinterested thought and the idea of self-education. Wisdom offends him, because it rouses in him disturbance and confusion, and because he will not see himself as he is.