Quotes About Thought

Si quieren que tenga un misticismo, está bien, lo tengo. Soy místico, mas solo con el cuerpo. Mi alma es pura y no piensa. Mi misticismo es no querer saber. Es vivir y no pensarlo

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

Se puede llegar a morir de abstracción

Es cierto, no hay planes celestiales ni infernales. Pero cuando uno está enamorado busca explicar el rechazo en términos de intriga. El amor es fatal para el pensamiento. La gente empieza a creer en gualichos, en maldiciones, en conexiones mágicas. Siga un consejo: no se enamore.

Salzman percibió la invasión de otro pensamiento usurpador: ¿Es el azar el nombre de nuestra ignorancia o el universo contiene episodios impredecibles?

el ave del espiritu debe liberarse de la jaula racional

Yo era el que pensaba, ¿pero quién me pensaba? Yo era la conciencia, luego la conciencia de la conciencia, luego la conciencia de la conciencia de la conciencia...

Only once did she say: "I love the way you think without thinking

it. In the mind there is no free will, but the mind is determined to will this or that by a cause that is also determined by another, and this again by another, and so on to infinity.

Tra il primo pensiero d'una impresa terribile, e l'esecuzione di essa, (ha detto un barbaro che non era privo d'ingegno) 277 l'intervallo è un sogno, pieno di fantasmi e di paure.

I wouldn't have done it, but it scared me that I thought of it at all. I scared me.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

I begin my work at about nine or ten o'clock in the evening and continue until four or five in the morning. Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

Man — a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come:Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.

Then, at the last and only couplet fraughtWith some unmeaning thing they call a thought,A needless Alexandrine ends the song,That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.