Quotes About Thought

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.

Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.

And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

I think, therefore I'll think.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.

Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.