Quotes About Thought

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

Imagining something is better than remembering something.

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.