Quotes About Thought

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

Without thought he repeated some words which a boy had once chalked on the blackboard between lessons: 'A lump of coal is better than nothing. Nothing is better than God. Therefore a lump of coal is better than God'. And then he traced his own name with his finger on the cracked and broken floor.

The brain is a funny thing, the way it works, always looking for the most polite explanation...

it was "decidedly instructive" to contemplate "the ease with which one-half of the population of the country were suddenly deprived of the right of speech, the right to read, and one might almost say the right to think.

I really was put out of Germany for the crime of blasphemy... My offense was to think that Hitler is just an ordinary man

Thought denies that it is participative." Thought stops tracking reality and "just goes, like a program." And thought establishes its own standard of reference for fixing problems, problems which it contributed to creating in the first place.

The purpose of dialogue," Bohm suggests, "is to reveal the incoherence in our thought." There are three types of incoherence.

Once people see the participatory nature of their thought, they begin to separate themselves from their thought. They begin to take a more creative, less reactive, stance toward their thought.

Anyway, I thought I might go. You never know, the murderers might turn up to pay their respects, like they do in books.

There is a view in some philosophical circles that anything that can be understood by people who have not studied philosophy is not profound enough to be worth saying. To the contrary, I suspect that whatever cannot be said clearly is probably not being thought clearly either.

But you write what comes back to you, and then afterward it comes back to you all over again.

children]can thus learn the art of loving and know truly that when they think a thought they release a tremendous power or force in space.

David W. Orr writes, in The Nature of Design, "We are losing the capacity to say what we really mean and ultimately to think about what we mean. We are losing the capacity for articulate intelligence about the things that matter most.

This is what fascinates me most: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.

There was a silence for a while. Finally, Sloosh opened his eyes. He said, I've traced my line of thought. It's rational and analytic. No. I'm not crazy.

Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?

within him an actual hatred once more manifested itself toward his electric sheep, which he had to tend, had to care about, as if it lived. The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.

The Mind is not talking to us but by means of us. Its narrative passes through us and its sorrow infuses us irrationally. As Plato discerned, there is a streak of the irrational in the World Soul.

36:...Something has happened to our intelligence. My reasoning is this: arrangements of part of the Brain is a language. We are parts of the Brain; therefore, we are language. Why, then, do we not know this?

No weapon has ever been frightful enough to put a stop to war - perhaps because we never before had any that thought for themselves.

It sounds like they're saying passive life is good, he thought. But there is no such thing as passive life. That's a contradiction.

Thank you, Tim Leary, Fat thought. You and your promotion of the joy of expanded consciousness through dope.

Religion, Sebastian thought wearily. More ins and outs, more angles, than ordinary commerce.

Like an existentialist, I will infer my state from the actions I perform. Thought follows deed, as Mussolini taught. In Anfang war die Tat, as Goethe says in Faust. In the beginning was the deed, not the word.