Quotes About Thoughts

Yo creo que, normalmente, el cerebro de una persona es como un pequeño ático vacío en el que hay que meter los muebles que uno prefiera.

I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding.

in origine il cervello umano è come un attico vuoto che uno deve riempire con i mobili che preferisce.

I am inclined to think— said I. I should do so, Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

Yeah, but emotions don't have brains. (Acheron)

So my only hope, therefore, was to make him so angry he'd kill me outright and save us both a lot of effort. These were my cheery thoughts--not that my head was any too clear.

She brought herself away from the disagreeably clinging thought by her usual method - imagining the sweet sharp sensation of being burned alive.

But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.

In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

It's indecent for anyone to be this happy, Tracy Whitney thought.

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.

Dream's evanescence, the way in which, on awakening, our thoughts thrust it aside as something bizarre, and our reminiscences mutilating or rejecting it—all these and many other problems have for many hundred years demanded answers which up till now could never have been satisfactory.

By exposing the hidden dream-thoughts, we have confirmed in general that the dream does continue the motivation and interests of waking life, for dream-thoughts are engaged only with what seems to be important and of great interest to us.

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind – separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.

there is no such thing as an unconscious no.

thanks to the discrepancies between people's thoughts and their actions, and to the diversity of their wishful impulses.

The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression

This is why a new task faces us which did not exist before, the task of investigating the relationship of the manifest dream-content to the latent dream-thoughts, and of tracing the processes by which the latter turned into the former.

The dream-thoughts and the dream-content lie before us like two versions of the same content in two different languages, or rather, the dream-content looks to us like a translation of the dream-thoughts into another mode of expression, and we are supposed to get to know its signs and laws of grammatical construction by comparing the original and the translation.

I always find the same principles confirmed: the elements formed into the dream are drawn from the entire mass of the dream-thoughts, and in its relation to the dream-thoughts each one of the elements seems to be determined many times over.

Then, when the entire mass of these dream-thoughts is subject to the pressure of the dream-work, and the pieces are whirled about, broken up, and pushed up against one another, rather like ice-floes surging down a river, the question arises: what has become of the bonds of logic which had previously given the structure its form?

Lucretius and Cicero testify to the view that people dream about the things that concern them in waking life.

Uma técnica bem comum de distorção onírica consiste em representar o resultado de um acontecimento ou a conclusão de uma cadeia de pensamento no início de um sonho e em colocar em seu final as premissas nas quais se basearam a conclusão ou as causas que levaram ao acontecimento.