Quotes About Thought

In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through with it, and it had the added benefit of not entailing risk.

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

Sometimes it's better not to think in questions, but I can't seem to get out of the habit.

The clacking of the checkers on the hardwood points was the music of honest thought, resounding in silence as it navigated the fortunes told by the pips on the dice.

They were drones, men costumed in independent thought who'd become slaves of party groupspeak. (p. 4)

What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

What does it remember like?

Like you, I think of myself as many things, as if the thinking made it so. In the meantime, while I think - while you think, while we think - our actions and inactions create and destroy the world.

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

Thinking would keep me alive. But now I am alive and thinking is killing me

I am a mother, she thought—not an answer to the question being asked, and no more her ultimate ambition than happiness, but her ultimate identity.

In the meantime, while I think-while you think, while we think-our actions and inactions create and destroy the world.

I had no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

The arm was the arm, and it was the arm - not her husband, or even herself - that she thought about seven years later, on June 28, 1941, as the first German war blasts shook her wooden house to its foundations, and her eyes rolled back in her head to view, before dying, her insides.

When I had thought I was dying at the base of the Loschwitz Bridge, there was a single thought in my head: Keep thinking. Thinking would keep me alive. But now I am alive, and thinking is killing me.

La sabiduría es como una gallina, cuyo cacareo debemos saber valorar y considerar, pues es acompañado por un huevo.

the quarrel is not against any particular points of hard digestion in the Christian system, but against religion in general; which, by laying restraints on human nature, is supposed the great enemy to the freedom of thought and action. Upon

Para escrever bem — acredito com firmeza —, é preciso ser discreto.

To think, analyze and invent are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.

There is no pleasure more complex than that of thought and we surrendered ourselves to it.

To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.

La imaginación está hecha de convenciones de la memoria. Si yo no tuviera memoria no podría imaginar.

Centuries and centuries of idealism have not failed to influence reality