Quotes About Thought

He wondered if he'd completely lost his mind, but then figured that people who'd gone insane never wondered if they'd gone insane.

A thought flashed through Vader's mind, a stray thought, just for a moment: his Master dead, Vader ruling the Empire, the galaxy, unconstrained by the leash of an old man…

At the higher realms of rationality, even reason can begin to appear irrational.

only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

Sometimes I think and other times I am.

Sometime I think; and sometime I am.

Cognition reigns but does not rule.

This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest nor serve the power of the mind.

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect.

Une philosophie doit etre portative.

Moje telo? mi je strano kao bilo koji drugi predmet - (ako ne i mnogo više -) a bliskije mi je, više prvotnije i prvobitnije JA od svake misli.

La conscience règne mais ne gouverne pas.

Filosofische posities krijgen hun ware objectiviteit alleen wanneer de lezer ze zich zelf toeëigent, wanneer hij ze voor eigen rekening zelf na-denkt, en zo de gedachten van anderen tot zijn eigen, opnieuw persoonlijke gedachten maakt.

But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or "sub-oppressors." The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradictions of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them, to be men is to be oppressors. This is their model of humanity.

To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

assert the primacy of thought over ritual

He was still undecided. It depended on how you thought of God. If God is nature, then God doesn't care, since nature doesn't care. But if, as the mystics understood, God is the best of man and within man, then God cares, since man does.

Perhaps his greatest lesson is that philosophical rigor does not have to be pedantic.

I find this to be true of my spiritual life, and maybe it applies to yours as well: I think about things more than I do them; I ponder what seems their goodness more than I perform them. As if my thought alone were enough. But a thought alone isn't quite enough; it's an impulse and not a commitment, a passing thing that doesn't take root unless you plant it and make it grow.

it is harder to decide what you want to say than it is to figure out how to say it.

When you are thinking about what you want to say, it is often helpful to define it down, in your own mind, to a sentence or two.

They weren't trying to self-consciously fashion a phrase that would grab the listener. They were simply trying to capture in words the essence of the thought they wished to communicate.

To know what we think, to be masters of our own meaning, will make a solid foundation for great and weighty thought.

Light in every lamp, light in every mind.