Quotes About Thought

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

Essa angústia, prolongando-se, arriscava-se a desagregar uma sociedade, assim como pode fender um indivíduo submetido a estresses repetidos. Podia provocar um fenômeno de inadaptação, uma regressão do pensamento e da afetividade, uma multiplicação das fobias; introduzir uma dose excessiva de negatividade e desespero. JEAN DELUMEAU: HISTÓRIA DO MEDO NO OCIDENTE

so each day brought a further descent into the depths of concrete existence and a further ascent toward the heights of abstraction.

The explanation is that it is rivals rather than enemies who hamper our beginnings, and it is against them we fight until the great conflicts arise which decide ways of life, modes of thought, and the meaning of history.

You don't have to dream when you habitually think good and do good.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

I could not think without writing.

Every response, whether it be an act directed towards the outside world or an act internalized as thought, takes the form of an adaptation or, better, of a re-adaptation.

Logic is the mirror of thought, and not vice versa;in classes, relations et nombres; essai sur les groupements de logistique et la réversibilitié de lq pensée

Psychology, in fact, repre- sents the juncture of two opposite directions of are still insufficient. In the science of human be- scientific thought that are dialectically comple- mentary. It follows that the system of sciences cannot be arranged in a linear order, as many people beginning with Auguste Comte have at- tempted to arrange them.

Once out in the bright green meadows of the valley he thought he would be safe from the thoughts that swarmed about him like a dream of reptiles.

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Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

Second-hand porn from the looks of it. But any porn in a storm, he thought.

The unthought hurts because we're comfortable in what's already thought.

The mind is an activity, not a repository.

Lydia feels annoyed that her niece won't get to see the music box she purchased for her special day. How expensive it was! She realizes, even as this thought occurs to her, how bizarre and awful it is, but she can't stop it from crashing in. She doesn't rebuke herself for thinking it; she does herself the small kindness of forgiving her malfunctioning logic.

Surrealism is born of a consciousness of the derisory condition allotted to the individual and his thought, and a refusal to accommodate oneself to it.

At the cinema we do not think, we are thought.

There is only one way to be an intellectual revolutionary, and that is to give up being an intellectual

When a philosophical thought expresses a concept of what it then names "God," this concept functions exactly as an idol. It gives itself to be seen, but thus all the better conceals itself as the mirror where thought, invisibly, has its forward point fixed, so that the invisable finds itself, with an aim suspended by the fixed concept, disqualified and abandoned

La pensée est le réveil du sens.

I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.