Quotes About Thoughts

Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable.

The death of God has set the angels free. And they are terrible. There are principalities and powers. Angels are the thoughts of God. Now he had been dissolved into his thoughts which are beyond our conception in their nature and their multiplicity and their power. God was at least the name of something which we thought was good. Now even the name has gone and the spiritual world is scattered. There is nothing any more to prevent the magnetism of many spirits.

The human mind is a weird place.

You mustn't mind so much. It's all in your head. Well, I live in my head.

How mysterious night and day are, this endless procession off dark and light....I think such sad thoughts - of people in trouble and afraid, all lonely people all prisoners.

I shook myself out of these dreams. There were places where my thoughts must not go; and as I then reflected how few places were left where they could now go without incurring pain or guilt I decided that I needed some more whisky.

There was a sort of grey dripping figure that kept trying to rise up in my mind and which I ruthlessly violently banished.

A really malicious letter should be read once only and destroyed, or best of all not read at all. These things lodge in the mind.

But thinking about wickedness usually just comforts.

One's mind is such an old rubbish heap. All sorts of little bits of machinery start up.

Our relationship in fact was never idle. It was obvious that we constantly thought about each other.

You know as well as I do that one can be imprisoned in one's mind.

How can I even think of such a fate . . . Better to commit murder.

I tried to think these thoughts but they remained intolerably abstract, while a pain in my body told me what was real.

The best you can hope for is a little peace and not too much remorse. Thoughts at peace under an English heaven.

Henry's joy left him abruptly and he began anxiously to think about himself.

We think with our body, with its yearnings and its shrinkings and its ghostly walkings.

But now he was dreaming, he was wildly imagining things.

Pití je pro mladé, které jeÅ¡tÄ› netrápí myÅ¡lenky na smrt.

Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?

He threw his cigar away and looked up at the outstretched Galaxy. "Back to oil and coal, are they?" he murmured—and what the rest of his thoughts were he kept to himself.

He de decir, si usted no lo sabe por propia experiencia, que leer un buen libro, embebido en el interés de sus palabras y pensamientos, produce en algunas personas (en mí, por ejemplo) una increíble sensación de felicidad.

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. It's a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match.

Era um grande acréscimo à vida de Harlan. Ter alguém com quem conversar, com quem falar sobre sua vida, seus feitos e pensamentos. Era como se ela fosse uma parte dele, mas uma parte suficientemente separada para exigir a fala como comunicação, em vez do pensamento. Era uma parte suficientemente separada para ser capaz de responder de maneira imprevista, por meio de processos racionais independentes.