Quotes About Thoughts

There are moments when we think we're being silent because all around us there's no sound, but unless we calm our mind, talking is still going on all the time inside our head. That's not true silence.

Das allerdings ist ein absurder Gedanke. Andererseits sind, wie ich im Laufe meines Lebens jetzt schon mit Entschiedenheit weiß, gerade die absurden Gedanken die klarsten Gedanken und die absurdesten die wichtigsten überhaupt.

Las palabras echan a perder lo que se piensa, el papel ridiculiza lo que se piensa.

One actually finds most people uninteresting, I thought, all the time—almost all the people we meet are uninteresting, having nothing to offer us but their collective mediocrity and their collective imbecility, with which they bore us on every occasion, and so naturally we have no time for them.

M? gândesc cu pl?cere la autodistrugere ÅŸi autodesfiinÅ£are.N-am altceva de f?cut toat? viaÅ£a.Iar dac? nu m? înÅŸel,chiar îmi reuÅŸesc autodistrugerea ÅŸi autodesfiinÅ£area.De când m? scol dimineaÅ£a,primul meu gând este s? acÅ£ionez decis la distrugerea ÅŸi desfiinÅ£area mea.

Most men are so far from making God their chief end, in their natural and civil actions, that, in these matters, God is not in all their thoughts. . . . They seek God indeed, but not for himself, but for themselves. They seek him not at all, but for their own welfare; so their whole life is woven into one web of practical blasphemy; making God the means, and self their end; yea, their chief end.

Ideas! There is no occasion for them; all that class of ideas which can be available in such a case has a language of representative feelings.

Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds

She simply observed herself as a fair product of Nature in the feminine kind, her thoughts seeming to glide into far-off though likely dramas in which men would play a part—vistas of probable triumphs—the smiles being of a phase suggesting that hearts were imagined as lost and won.

She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.

Within his temples felt thoughts not of woman's looks, but of stellar aspects and the configuration of constellations. Thus, to his physical attractiveness was added the attractiveness of mental inaccessibility.

ideas are so elastic in a human brain, that they have no constant measure which may be called their actual bulk. Any important idea may be compressed to a molecule by an unwonted crowding of others; and any small idea will expand to whatever length and breadth of vacuum the mind may be able to make over to it.

Down there they are dubious and askance; there nobody thinks as I, But mind-chains do not clank where one's next neighbour is the sky.

Kad se dobro zamišljeni plan nesretno ostvari, onaj koga zoveš malokad dolazi, i ?ovjek koji bi se mogao voljeti rijetko nai?e u vrijeme kad se ljubav traži.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

He follows several trains of thought at once, without distraction from any, and one of the trains is always for his own amusement.

Do you dream much, Will?

What, the Star Wars?" Mapp said. "If the aliens are trying to control Buffalo Bill's thoughts from another planet, Senator Martin can protect him—is that the pitch?" Starling nodded. "A lot of paranoid schizophrenics have that specific hallucination—alien control. If that's the way Bill's wired, maybe this approach could bring him out. It's a damn good shot, though, and she stood up there and fired it, didn't she?

Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination." Crawford

She wondered if men actually regard that kind of manipulation as subtle.

I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. s

IMAGINATION therefore is nothing but decaying sense; and is found in men, and many other living Creatures, as well sleeping, as waking.