Quotes About Thought

Si nous sommes capables de penser l'univers, c'est parce que l'univers pense en nous. - François Chang

True, this golden friendship is not a common thing to be picked up in the street. It would not be worth much if it were. Like wisdom it must be sought for as for hid treasures, and to keep it demands care and thought.

Reason is not some external power which dictates how we should behave, but an internal power, integral to who we are ... Reason does not command that we love anyone. Nonetheless, reason is vital in determining whom we love and why we love them.

For as long as you direct your search to the forms around you, you will not attain your goal even after aeon upon aeon; whereas, by contemplating your inner awareness, you can achieve Buddhahood in a single flash of thought.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

Soon he would see war. Jis romanticism and inexperience insulated him from the thought that he might feel it, too.

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy.

information was like a stone skimming across the surface of his brain, soon sinking, never to be retrieved.

Pretty much.

Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.

Soms is een gedachte dichter bij de waarheid, bij de werkelijkheid, dan een handeling. Je kunt alles zeggen, je kunt alles doen, maar een gedachte kun je niet veinzen.

Math is a product of human minds but not bendable to human will

Human beings, on the other hand, are symbolic creatures. Inside their heads they break down the outside world into a mass of mental symbols, then recombine those symbols to recreate that world. What they subsequently react to is often the mental construct, rather than the primary experiences themselves.

Remembering and Forgetting You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember – and generally more practical.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

When sense has left a head, it should be called a tail.

Estudia las suposiciones que hay detrás de tus acciones. Luego, estudia las suposiciones que hay tras tus suposiciones.

Según la afirmación tradicional, los caminos que llevan al pensamiento sufí son tan variados como la cantidad de Sufis existentes.

Para el Mazo de la Mente Superior, los cielos son la bola más pequeña posible.

La mayor barrera para la comprensión es el pensamiento anhelante y seguir lo que a uno le gusta.

Es por esta razón que los proverbios y truismos son peligrosos: porque producen ceguera o no-pensamiento.

Las palabras, dicen, son el alimento de la mente. Pero, al igual que otros alimentos, pueden hacer poco por sí mismas.

El Sufi debe ser capaz de alternar su pensamiento entre lo relativo y lo Absoluto, lo aproximado y lo Real.