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Quotes About Thoughts

Pentru ca în creierul unui tâmpit s? se contureze un gând, e nevoie s? i se întâmple multe lucruri ÅŸi tare crunte.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
S'ils se mettent à penser à vous, c'est à votre torture qu'ils pensent qu'ils songent aussitôt les autres, et rien qu'à ça.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Not for-an empire would those lunatics have gone outside their minds. A madman's thoughts are just the usual ideas of a human being, except that they're hermetically sealed inside his head. The world never gets into his head, and that's the way he wants it. A sealed head is like a lake without an outlet, standing, stagnant.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Normally Lucybelle wouldn't suffer a fool like this for a second, but tonight she sipped her drink and took refuge in the boredom of his soliloquy, wanting the dull patter to muffle her disturbing thoughts. They broke free anyway, her thoughts, flew overhead like a flock of anxious birds, darting here and there, checking the ceiling and corners for danger.
~ Lucy Jane Bledsoe
They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
The mention of college gave a new direction to Gilbert's thoughts, and they talked for a time of their plans and wishes... gravely, earnestly, hopefully, as youth loves to talk, while the future is yet an untrodden path full of wonderful possibilities.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Quando aprendemos que a linguagem nos foi dada para que possamos esconder nossos pensamentos, nos tornamos menos interessantes.- Anne
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
This book will perhaps only be understood by those who have themselves already thought the thoughts which are expressed in it-or similar thoughts. It is therefore not a text-book. Its object would be attained if it afforded pleasure to one who read it with understanding.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
What I called jottings would not be a rendering of the text, not so to speak a translation with another symbolism. The text would not be stored up in the jottings. And why should it be stored up in our nervous system?
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
In the middle of a conversation, someone says to me out of the blue: I wish you luck. I am astonished; but later I realize that these words connect up with his thoughts about me. And now they do not strike me as meaningless any more.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts.   Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.   A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.   The result of philosophy is not a number of "philosophical propositions", but to make propositions clear.   Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. The result of philosophy is not a number of "philosophical propositions", but to make propositions clear. Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Dalle vette nuvolose delle sue astrazioni il signor Anselmo lasciava spesso precipitar così, come valanghe, i suoi pensieri. La ragione, il nesso, l'opportunità di essi rimanevano lassù, tra le nuvole, dimodochè difficilmente a chi lo ascoltava riusciva di capirci qualche cosa.
~ Luigi Pirandello
But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.
~ Luigi Pirandello
The thing i call 'my mind' seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn't really know its tenants.
~ Lynda Barry
I find that the thoughts spoken between the lines are the most important parts of a poem or story.
~ Lynn Cullen
Love is love and shouldn't upset anyone. So what else are they thinking about when they get upset at your partner preferences?" she asked reasonably, and then answered the question herself. "Their minds are in your pants and on what you do. And while they're welcome to bury their brain in their own pants, they have no business in yours.
~ Lynsay Sands