Quotes About Thought

Male werewolves treat their mates like beloved slaves. the thought set my back up. It was just a good thing I wasn't a werewolf or there would be a slave rebellion.

As long as I thought what he wanted me to think, he liked it when I thought for myself.

Sometimes the thought had occurred to me that Adam dressed so civilized in his silk shirts and hand-tailored suits as a shield against the wildness within him.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of interpretive, analytical thought that is labeled theory in the West, powerful knowledges of resistance that toppled former social structures of social inequality repudiate this view. Members of these groups do in fact theorize, and our critical social theory has been central to our political empowerment and search for justice.

head, and then

Since the affliction was so plainly psychosomatic, the worst thing she could do was to give it space for thought.

The commitment to enlarged thought is morally and politically significant in that it fosters the 'ability to think without rules', to cultivate judgement and conscience capable of thinking through the purposes and consequences of our actions from different perspectives, without proceeding in automatic fashion through obedience to pre-existing social conventions.

This is the essence of the thought experiment. Suppose this happens. What happens next? What would that necessitate? And then? And then? And then what implications would arise? And so on.

A big part of a thought experiment is thoroughly considering the consequences and implications of certain conditions, actions or choices.

Indeed, thought will go on fooling them into the belief that more of the same will ultimately become something new.

This is an introduction for those who desire an intuitive grasp of Derridean "thought" that makes a difference, that gains traction in one's life. Writing is the central concept for Derrida. This writing, however, must be understood as inscription, the line that at once limits and defines, as boundedness. Writing is also a heuristic device in the service of what I will call constitutive difference.

He was enveloped in a fog of indifference that grew thicker and thicker. Did I have the right to rouse him from it, to force him to think of something painful?

But then I think Viola - I think of her out there - And I push it back - I feel my hands on the floor - I use them to rise to my knees - I lift my head - To see the Mayor's surprised face only a yard or so away, coming toward me, something in his hand- "Goodness," he says, sounding almost cheerful. "Even stronger than I thought.

You imagine the devil, you make the devil.

A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not." "An army is," I say. "Only if it has a general for a brain.

It was not wrong, the monster said, It was only a thought, one of a million. It was not an action.

Memory is stupid, ain't it?

it was only a thought, one in a million. It was not an action.

A memory is not the thing remembered

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Let me see a complete reorganization of the North Atlantic fleet's defensive strategy against Nazi U-boats. And if it won't go on one side of one sheet of paper, it hasn't been properly thought out—Winston Churchill.

So rather than risk saying the wrong thing, I said nothing.