Quotes About Thought

I live in my head all day long and the world is a little dreamy.

I just like to be alone sometimes and think.

I like listening to ambient music, especially in very scenic places because I think it allows for the most freedom of thought.

I have an analytical mind.

I'm usually very analytical when I'm prepping stuff: real into the head thing.

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.

I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.

I don't really have a process. I just get agitated or aroused by an idea in the world, and then I want to give my rebuttal.

Every compartment in his brain which he had thought to find so full of wit was bolted fast; he grew positively stupid.

No hay que haberlo experimentado todo para poder expresarlo todo? Y sentir vivamente, ¿no es sufrir? Por consiguiente, las poesías no se crean sino tras penosos viajes que se emprenden a las vastas regiones del pensamiento y de la sociedad.

to the sense of coming events and mysterious felicity and fear at hand, while as yet there is no substance of fact on which these phantoms of caprice can fix and feed? Over these fancies thought hovers, conceiving impossible projects, giving in the germ all the joys of love. Perhaps, indeed, all passion is contained in that thought-germ, as the beauty, and fragrance, and rich color of the flower is all packed in the seed.

Thirteen men were banded together in Paris under the Empire, all imbued with one and the same sentiment, all gifted with sufficient energy to be faithful to the same thought, with sufficient honor among

The influence and power of the press is only dawning," said Finot. "Journalism is in its infancy; it will grow. In ten years' time, everything will be brought into publicity. The light of thought will be turned on all subjects, and — — " "The blight of thought will be over it all," corrected Blondet.

You can't say what you think, if it is true, as an illustrious author says it is, that a man must think his words before he speaks his thoughts,

What is a feeling if not a world in a thought?

We talked together through that silence in the language of thought. Nothing is more rapturous than these mute conversations.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

It is well to think well: it is divine to act well.

Your mind is like Heraclitus' river. Your mind, in fact, is like nineteenth-century father of psychology William James' "stream of consciousness," a bubbling, babbling brook. Your mind constantly produces different currents of associations, different swirls of thought, and different moods.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

The Growth and Structure of His Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968)

Judaism is not, and never has been, a single stream of thought, but a river formed of many, often contradictory, streams, and rabbinic texts are composites of different kinds of thinking.

Nothing is casual. Everything requires work, research, and thought. Agonize. Take it seriously. Don't leave it up to someone else, and don't phone it in. There is no such thing as a shortcut if you are going to turn in good work. If I ever enjoy the process, I know I have somehow produced something worthless.