Quotes About Thought

I am not a donkey to be led by the carrot of salvation and the stick of damnation without thinking of where they are driving me and what they are making me do.

What a fantastic piece of hot lustful woman she was, Roger thought irrelevantly.

Tentative Model #1: The perceived universe is a mixture of the "real universe" and our own "Thinker" — proving its pet beliefs.

The Prover is a much simpler mechanism. It operates on one law only: Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves.

Krishnamurti distinguishes between thinking, an active process, and thought, the result of past thinking filed away in the memory of the brain, or in a library or computer, etc. Thought contains all the wisdom, and much of the folly, of the past; it's a great labor-saving device. Why does Krishnamurti regard thought as profoundly dangerous and the enemy of thinking?

In the short run, Orr's law always holds: Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove.*

Ever since then there has been a strain of right wing political thought which blames everything in the world on the Illuminati and claims they still continue. I stumbled on this literature in the mid-60s. Most of it is obviously paranoid. It's full of logical howlers such as only paranoids commit through a strong passion to prove an obsessive case, and I thought it was very funny.

It is venturesome to think that a coordination of words (philosophies are nothing more than that) can resemble the universe very much. — Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths

A field that depends on what people believe is unthinkable to a Fundamentalist Materialist, but social studies seems to need such fields.

It appears that life continues to show signs of intelligence (and strict Darwinism is perpetually beset by Lamarckian, Bergsonian, Reichian and other heresies) because the genetic code, like the binary used in computers and I Ching is a logical language and does produce either thought or an analog of thought.

In ordinary language, the semantic circuit is usually called "the mind." (As psychologist Robert Ornstein said in a recent radio show, when we say someone "has a good mind," we generally mean they have a good mouth, i.e., they use the semantic circuit well.)

Do we think at all — about these allegations, or about anything else — or do we just respond mechanically with conditioned prejudices, as the Behaviorists assure us? If we laugh at the gross bigotries of the 13th Century, what do we think about the data that seems flatly impossible to us?

I believe that's only because it's an unconventional idea. It breaks down our whole conditioned system. The first thing you learn in a logic class is the syllogism, "All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal." And to knock that one over really disturbs people and I find it fascinating that they are disturbed because I don't think they really want to die; they just don't want to think a new thought.

The thought came creeping, just as the numbness came creeping, stealing over his senses, softly, smoothly, there in the silken silence.

As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.

Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.

unless I am mistaken, it was Mr. Welch himself (an adamant total abstainer) who persuaded American Protestantism to abandon what the Lord obviously thought rather kindly of.

I've seen what rational thought leads to. Dumbest people I ever met were intellectuals.

Un pensamiento puede llegar a ser un sentimiento y un sentimiento puede llegar a ser un pensamiento.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.

New' is a word for fools in towns who think / Style upon style in dress and thought at last / Must get somewhere.

For God himself the height of feeling free Must have been His success in simile When at sight of you He thought of me.

All thought is a feat of association.