Quotes About Thoughts

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.

If you wish to learn from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods which he uses, I would give you the following piece of advice: Don't listen to his words, examine his achievements. For to the discoverer in that field, the constructions of his imagination appear so necessary and so natural that he is apt to treat them not as the creations of his thoughts but as given realities.

Hakikatku adalah yang aku pikirkan, bukan apa yang aku rasakan

I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

Our brains read things, just like the happy squirrel sitting on a pond.

Zettle notes, we misuse many nouns in psychology instead of verbs and thereby create semifictional entities that Kevin Everett FitzMaurice (1997) calls "thought things." Thus we say, "My feelings upset me when panic overwhelms me when I am in closed spaces" instead of, "I upset myself by panicking when I am in closed spaces.

The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.

A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like France or England, to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong.

Encendió un cigarrillo para desinfectar la memoria.

For the moment the interfering neurotic who, in waking hours, tries to run the show, was blessedly out of the way.

Oh, these rags and tags of other people's making! Would he ever be able to call his brain his own? Was there, indeed, anything in it that was truly his own, or was it simply an education?

For the moment that interfering neurotic who, in waking hours, tries to run the show, was blessedly out of the way.

Though the intellect remains unimpaired and though perception is enormously improved, the will suffers a profound change for the worse. The mescalin taker sees no reason for doing aanything in particular and finds most of the causes for which, at ordinary times, he was prepared to act and suffer, profoundly uninteresting. He can't be bothered with them, for the good reason that he has better things to think about.

There are many thoughts and feelings, but only a few gestures; and the mask has only half a dozen grimaces to express a thousand meanings

And what birds! widewinged and beautiful, all those serene thoughts and faiths and emotions that only visit minds that have humbled themselves to quiet.

Entelektüel aç?dan ve çal??ma saatleri süresince yetiÅŸkiniz, duygu ve arzular söz konusu olduÄŸundaysa çocukça davran?yoruz.

MARSYAS:        Beware! Easily trips the big word dare. Each man's an Å'dipus, that thinks He hath the four powers of the Sphinx, Will, Courage, Knowledge, Silence. Son, Even the adepts scarce win to one! The Thoughts—they fall like rotten fruits. But to destroy the power that makes These thoughts—thy Self? A man it takes To tear his soul up by the roots! This is the mandrake fable, boy!

En todo cerebro bien organizado, la idea dominante, y siempre hay una, es la primera que se presenta al despertarse, como es también la última que se tiene al dormirse".