Quotes About Thought

What state? A state of philosophical enquiry? I thought you would approve.

while the modern, human animal is capable of deep thought and, like its mammalian forebears, can nurture and play, it also is capable of behaving in an absolutely "reptilian" manner.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts

Science can only determine what is, but not what shall be, and beyond its realm, value judgements remain indispensable. Religion, on the other hand, is concerned only with evaluating human thought and actions; it is not qualified to speak of real facts and the relationships between them.

There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

awareness is itself a solvent. Simply allowing a thought, idea, anxiety or compulsion to rest within the field of awareness will dissolve that thought, idea and so on.

A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

Lo desconocido es un océano, cuya brújula es la consciencia. Pensamiento, meditación, oración, son los grandes señalamientos misteriosos de su aguja.

The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of a borrowed thought.

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others! He's stupid if he doesn't know other people's unhappiness is theirs, And isn't cured from the outside, Because suffering isn't like running out of ink, Or a trunk not having iron bands! There being injustice is like there being death.

A kid thinking about fairy tales and believing in fairy tales Acts like a sick god, but like a god. Because even though he affirms that what doesn't exist exists, He knows things exist, that he exists, He knows existing exists and doesn't explain itself, And he knows there's no reason at all for anything to exist. He knows being is the point. All he doesn't know is that thought isn't the point. (10/1/1917)

Lightly, lightly, very lightly, A wind passes very lightly And goes away, always very lightly. And I don't know what I think And I don't want to know.

Pensar é não compreender.

If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I've got it. I'm a mystic, but only in my body, My soul is simple and doesn't think.