Quotes About Thought

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He wanted to know what I thought. It was the opening of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It was sharp and insane.

One of my main regrets in life is giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people.

They say you don't directly remember things you see. Instead, you remember a memory of a memory of a memory of a… The

College took Elizebeth's innate tendency to doubt and gave it a structure, a justification. At Wooster and Hillsdale she discovered poetry and philosophy, two methods of exploring the unknown, two scalpels for carving up fact and thought.

A course on philosophy introduced her to a new hero, the Renaissance scholar Erasmus, who "believed in one aristocracy—the aristocracy of intellect," she wrote in a paper. "He had one faith—faith in the power of thought, in the supremacy of ideas." Elizebeth, a smart person from a working-class family, found this concept liberating: the measure of a person was her ideas, not her wealth or her command of religious texts.

the Renaissance scholar Erasmus, who "believed in one aristocracy—the aristocracy of intellect," she wrote in a paper. "He had one faith—faith in the power of thought, in the supremacy of ideas.

It was one of those ideas that doesn't sound stupid until someone says it out loud.

Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.

Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.

Es extraño cómo un pensamiento nos llega a veces con tanta nitidez y fuerza que ya no puede mediar nada entre él y su cumplimiento".

Las cosas difíciles parecen posibles en cuanto se las piensa un poco, pero se hacen imposibles si se las piensa de más.

stubbed it out in the ashtray she had been using before, for her equally

Se dio cuenta de que ya había decidido, pero prefería no reconocerlo aún en voz alta, prefería guardárselo unos segundos y mantenerlo sólo en su pensamiento, todavía puede uno echarse atrás mientras calla.

É curioso como o pensamento mergulha no inverosímil, como se permite fazê-lo momentaneamente, como imagina ou se torna supersticioso para descansar um pouco ou encontrar alívio, como é capaz de negar os factos e fazer o tempo retroceder, nem que seja um instante. Como se parece com o sonho.

Outside he hurried again, for he had several blocks to walk and the beer turned out to be no more than cool. He told himself he would remember next time to deal from the bottom - but the civil sirens sounded, surprising him with his silly private thought. That's what they blow them for. Thought is a national product, issued, like survival, on a day to day basis. There you go. Until tomorrow. When he understood this would be a long one today, he hurried on.

the hills like poets put on purple thought against the magnificent clamor of day tortured in gold

The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini.

I take the position that true faith is not a supersessional knowledge. It cannot discard the intellect.

the old Master becoming at some times demonic in his teaching, a destroyer of ego, of humble ordinary lines of thought, an army of right practice, right understanding overwhelming the frail redoubts and trenches of Warren's Western mind.

And he thought about the edge between the ninety percent and the ten percent. Sometimes that edge was cunning, and sometimes it was kind. Sometimes it was shabby. And sometimes it was heroic. But it was always mysterious. Definitely.

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.

every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.