Quotes About Thinking

Moins la t théorie cherche à passer pour définitive, englobante, moins aussi elle s'objectivisise (vergegenständlichen) face à celui qui pense. La disparition de la contrainte du système permet au pensant de se fier avec moins de prévention à sa propre conscience et expérience que ne le tolérait la conception pathétique d'une subjectivité qui doit payer son triomphe abstrait du renoncement à son contenu spécifique.

The un-naïve thinker knows how far he remains from the object of his thinking, and yet he must always talk as if he had it entirely. This brings him to the point of clowning. He must not deny his clownish traits, least of all since they alone can give him hope for what is denied him.

One might extend La Rochefoucauld's famous maxim that neither the sun nor death can be stared at for long, by saying that no member of the modern liberal intelligentsia can stare at a social problem for very long.

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

As a result of our wrong thinking and supineness, we American citizens tend to breed a mass of men whose interests in governmental matters are often adverse to ours, who are thoroughly drilled, thoroughly organized, who make their livelihood out of politics, and who frequently make their livelihood out of bad politics.

And what does Juliette think about at work? 'Why, nothing. At work I don't think, or I think about my saucepans.' Work is relaxation from home.

I can't explain it. It's so, I don't know. Fleeting. Ephemeral." "You're analyzing sex?" He sounded amused. "Why not?" "Women analyze to death. Sometimes it's better not to think about things too deeply." She

The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking; discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it.

Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their responsibilities as scholars, Clio frequently takes a back seat.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

The truth can be perceived only through thinking, as is proven by Augustine.

methinks we yet discourse in Plato's den, and are but embryon philosophers.

Human reasoning is created by God with a capacity for reaching toward God by thinking, choosing, and speaking.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

Truly a Thinking Man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such a one announces himself, I doubt not, there runs a shudder through the Nether Empire; and new Emissaries are trained, with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap him, and hoodwink and handcuff him.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

What's changed in New York, and what made us really change our thinking about New York, is that the different neighborhoods are becoming more important as shopping destinations than they used to be.

I do think non-linearly. So I think that comes off as nervousness or anxiety in a person.

I think a lot of the new age thinking, if you want to call it that, analytics, you have to be open to it.