Quotes About Thinking

There is a larger critique of markets, though, that goes beyond economics. Market-centric thinking has invaded every area of human life, leaving little space for other values like fairness, equality, or intrinsic value.

to know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect…

Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

I have no philosophy, I have senses . . . If I speak of Nature it's not because I know what it is But because I love it, and for that very reason, Because those who love never know what they love Or why they love, or what love is. To love is eternal innocence, And the only innocence is not to think . .

What matters is to be natural and calm In happiness and in unhappiness, To feel as if feeling were seeing, To think as if thinking were walking, And to remember, when death comes, that each day dies, And the sunset is beautiful, and so is the night that remains . . . That's how it is and how I want it to be . . .

Amar é a eterna inocência, E a única inocência não pensar...

Whole months have passed during which I haven't lived, but have merely endured, caught between the office and physiology, marooned in an inner stagnation of thinking and feeling. Alas, this is not a restful state to be in, for putrefaction inevitably involves fermentation.

To submit to nothing, whether to a man or a love or an idea, and to have the aloof independence of not believing in the truth or even (if it existed) in the usefulness of knowing it – this seems to me the right attitude for the intellectual inner life of those who can't live without thinking.

O espelho reflecte certo; não erra porque não pensa. Pensar é essencialmente errar. Errar é essencialmente estar cego e surdo.

Those who think with their reason tend to be distracted. Those who think with their emotions are sleeping. Those who think with their will are dead.

Eu não tenho filosofia: tenho sentidos... Se falo na Natureza não é porque saiba o que ela é, Mas porque a amo, e amo-a por isso, Porque quem ama nunca sabe o que ama Nem sabe por que ama, nem o que é amar... Amar é a eterna inocência, E a única inocência não pensar...

Para o homem vulgar, sentir é viver e pensar é saber viver. Para mim, pensar é viver e sentir não é mais que o alimento de pensar.

No subordinarse a nada, ni a un hombre ni a un amor ni a una idea; tener siempre la independencia distante que consiste en no creer en la verdad ni, si la hubiese, en la utilidad de conocerla, ése es el estado en el que, según me parece, deber transcurrir en sí misma, la vida intelectual de los que no viven sin pensar.

Thinking is still a form of acting. Only in sheer reverie, where nothing active intervenes and even our self-awareness gets stuck in the mud – only there, in this warm and damp state of non-being, can total renunciation of action be achieved. To stop trying to understand, to stop analysing… To see ourselves as we see nature, to view our impressions as we view a field – that is true wisdom.

Aquilo que, creio, produz em mim o sentimento profundo, em que vivo, de incongruência com os outros, é que a maioria pensa com a sensibilidade, e eu sinto com o pensamento. Para o homem vulgar, sentir é viver e pensar é saber viver. Para mim, pensar é viver e sentir não é mais que o alimento de pensar.

Andei sozinho na praia Andei na praia a pensar No jeito da tua saia Quando lá estiveste a andar.

Tobacco Shop') and compares his thinking to 'an overturned bucket' (in a poem dated 16 August 1934). If Soares thinks that 'Nothing is more oppressive than the affection of others' (Text 348), a Ricardo Reis ode (dated 1 November 1930) maintains that 'The same love by which we're loved/Oppresses us with its wanting.

Cine iubeÅŸte nu ÅŸtie nicicând ce iubeÅŸte Åži nici nu ÅŸtie de ce iubeÅŸte,nici a iubi ce va s? însemne... A iubi este începutul inocenÅ£ei Iar deplina inocen?? înseamn? a nu gândi...

Amar es la eterna inocencia. Y la única inocencia es no pensar.

Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do all virtues and even all vices.

Tedium … To suffer without suffering, to want without desire, to think without reason … It's like being possessed by a negative demon

Eu não tenho filosofia: tenho sentidos... Se falo na Natureza não é porque saiba o que ela é, Mas porque a amo, e amo-a por isso, Porque quem ama nunca sabe o que ama Nem sabe porque ama, nem o que é amar... Amar é a eterna inocência, E a única inocência é não pensar...

The trouble with you is," she said, "you sit in front of that window all the time where there's nothing to look out at. You need some inspiration and an out-let. If you would let me pull your chair around to look at the TV, you would quit thinking about morbid stuff, death and hell and judgement. My Lord.

It's no part of your job to think for the Lord, his great-uncle said. Judgment may rack your bones.