Quotes About Thought

The substance of thought – ideas – was far more real than the substance of the phenomenal world. Thinking, alone and unaided, could attain to the Good, the Beautiful and the True. This belief in the intrinsic ability of thinking to reach ultimate truth permeated deeply, though with growing doubts, into the Middle Ages.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things

I'm interested in going back to my mother, Moon thought. Can I explore that?

Starflight was dreaming, but it wasn't so much a dream as a memory.

Right, Tsunami thought. "Soft" is definitely how I'd describe Shark.

Darkstalker spread his wings, looking deeply injured. His rage vanished as quickly as it had appeared. "It was not animus-touched. I didn't do anything to it at all. I just thought it was beautiful and that Fathom would like it. You have an overly suspicious mind, Violet." "Indigo," Fathom corrected him automatically, dazed.

It's my new favorite brain.

Must be nice to be a scavenger, Snowfall thought. No problems in the world,

Well, I thought that would be less embarrassing for everyone than all the things you did say about her," Wren offered.

woah peril said momenterilly distracted from the thought of a peice of enchanted cheese

Within complexity I discovered dharmakaya; within thought I discovered nonthought.

How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset.

thing, the unthinking laughter of the secure.

A superconscious organism would not be superwise, it would be paralyzed.

Even when I'm not looking for a meaning one springs naturally to my mind. Do you think it is a disease?

I do not, she thought, no I do not, give a damn. The Furies were riding across an uninhabited sky, to their own and no one else's destruction.

The set of assumptions, prejudices, and mind-sets that structured and limited the thought of any particular age was referred to by Foucault as an episteme. This word derives from the same ancient Greek root as the branch of philosophy known as epistemology

Reading 1984 might get people thinking about it,' I said.

If it's still in your mind, it is worth taking the risk

For a moment, he thought: I could give up magic for her, but immediately realized how foolish that thought was. Love didn't require that kind of renunciation. True love allowed each person to follow their own path, knowing that they would never lose touch with their Soul Mate.

Words are born in thought, leaving lips, they acquire soul in the ears, yet sometimes this auditory magic does not make it as far as the mouth because it is swallowed dry.

And then she grew uneasy and full of gloom and thought to herself that if the child were joy yet was it a new gate for sorrow to enter by, too, and so is every child...

Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

My anger is like some rudimentary, single-celled beast, an exploding virus of fury that paralyses rational thought and blinds me to everything except one single goal...