THOUGHT QUOTES VI

quotations about thought


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A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE
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A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Myth of Sisyphus

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Thought is not made in a vacuum, nor created out of likeness. It requires travel and shipping and the coming and going of strangers to impregnate a civilization. That is why thought has flourished in cities which lie along the paths of communication. Nineveh, Athens, Alexandria, Rome, Venice, the Hansa towns, London, Paris -- they have made ideas out of the movement and contact of many people. Men are jostled into thought. Left alone they spin the same thread from the same dream. A community which is self-contained and homogeneous and secluded is intellectually deaf, dumb, and blind. It can cultivate robust virtue and simple dogmatism, but it will not invent or throw out a profusion of ideas.

WALTER LIPPMANN

The Stakes of Diplomacy

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O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

JOHN KEATS

letter to Benjamin Bailey, November 22, 1817

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Words are but the shining garments of Thought.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The Song of the Soul"

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The delicate thought that cannot find expression,
For ruder speech too fair,
That, like thy petals, trembles in possession,
And scatters on the air.

BRET HARTE

"The Mountain Heart's Ease"

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Thought is merely a property of matter, like the other properties of matter such as mass, motion, color.

ANEELA SHAHZAD

"Mind--The Hard Problem", Daily Pakistan, May 26, 2017


Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

WALTER BENJAMIN

Reflections

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It's the thought that counts.

SWEDISH PROVERB


If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.

MARGARET ATWOOD

Alias Grace

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What exile from himself can flee?
To zones, though more and more remote,
Still, still pursues, where'er I be,
The blight of life--the demon Thought.

LORD BYRON

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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The idea that being in love and having beautiful kids you would die for is going to prevent suicidal thoughts is a lie.

JULIE A. FAST

"Chris Cornell: When Suicide Doesn't Make Sense", Psychology Today, May 19, 2017


A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.

JAMES ALLEN

As a Man Thinketh


The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

ECKHART TOLLE

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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People, in all but the most favored times and places, are rooted to the places where they were born, think the thoughts of those places, can endure no other thoughts. The next parish even is suspected.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Literary Studies

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Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self.

VERA NAZARIAN

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration


The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber comes a moment of awakening. Then thought frees herself from the chains with which those interested -- rulers, lawyers, clerics -- have carefully enwound her. She shatters the chains. She subjects to severe criticism all that has been taught her, and lays bare the emptiness of the religious political, legal, and social prejudices amid which she has vegetated. She starts research in new paths, enriches our knowledge with new discoveries, creates new sciences.

PETER KROPOTKIN

Anarchist Morality

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Thought exists at the farthest remove from the vocalizations of the human animal.

MICHAEL W. CLUNE

"Thought Against Life: Cyrus Console's 'Romanian Notebook'", L.A. Review of Books, May 21, 2017


The course of history has often been turned by sentiment, but by thought never. The thinkers are but valuable ornaments. A safe place is assigned to them on the world's mantelpiece, while humanity basks and blinks stupidly on the hearth.

MAX BEERBOHM

The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

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