Quotes About Thoughts

The angels that dry our eyes bear the form and the features of all we have said and thought—above all, of what we have done, prior to the hour of misfortune.

This swarming of words behind words, thoughts behind thoughts--this universal substitution is also a kind of stability.

Signification arouses speech as the world arouses my body--by a mute presence which awakens my intentions without deploying itself before them. In me as well as in the listener who finds it in hearing me, the significative intention (even if it is subsequently to fructify in 'thoughts') is at the moment no more than a determinate gap to be filled by words--the excess of what I intend to say over what is being said or has already been said.

The senses, and one's own body overall, present the mystery of a whole that, without leaving behind its haeccity and its particularity, emits beyond itself significations capable of offering a framework for an entire series of thoughts and experiences.

Nature starts from the unknowable and finishes consciously. Inversely, art starts from certain conscious thoughts and finishes in something that can be perpetually taken up again. Art attains the Absolute because at that moment consciousness attains the unconscious.

This dialogue between the subject and the object, where the subject takes the sense scattered across the object and the object gathers together the subjec's intentions, namely, physiognomic perception, arranges a world around the subject that speaks to him on the topic of himself and places his own thoughts in the world.

What dreams in us is our existential field.

How to rediscover the emerging sense of philosophy? By expanding our thoughts, our lived situation of the philosopher through those of the ancients, and those of the ancients by ours. This reciprocal contestation unveils the common field of which philosophies are only sections.

All vision, no matter what color it may be, is a kind of thoughtscreen (which allows for the overflowing of other thoughts)-- Vorhabe and sedimentation.

A man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

Mensch, es spukt in deinem Kopfe!

Our whole education system is calculated to produce *feelings* in us, impart them to us, instead of leaving their production to ourselves however they may turn out...Thus stuffed with imparted feelings, we appear before the bar of majority and are 'pronounced of age." Our equipment consists of "elevating feelings, lofty thoughts, inspiring maxims,eternal principles.

Do I write out of love for human beings? No, I write because I want to give my thoughts an existence in this world; and even if I thought that these thoughts would take away your rest and peace, even if I saw the bloodiest wars and the destruction of many generations sprouting from this seed of thought: — still I would scatter it

Language or "the word" tyrannizes hardest over us, because it brings up against us a whole army of fixed ideas.

Aus fixen Ideen entstehen die Verbrechen.

What is most beautiful in this world of ours has been created by man's labour, by his clever hands; all our thoughts and ideas spring from the process of labour, and this is something the history of art, science and technology convinces us of.

Happiness is simply "a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.

Ideas are changed, not by will, but by other ideas

It would have been very bad," he said, "but I never allow my mind to think in that way.

I must repeat: Psycho-Cybernetics does not say that man is a machine. Rather, it says that man has a machine that he uses.

Sentimentele sunt pamantul in care creste gandurile si ideile.

Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you think or imagine to be true.

create experience and control it, in the laboratory of our minds.

Since you make them evil or good by your own thoughts about them, it is the ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.