Quote of Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Great thoughts come from the heart....

Biography - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues:

French writer and moralist.
Born: 1715 - Died: 1747
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
France

Source: Reflexions and Maxims

Quote

Great thoughts come from the heart.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

Note

Maxim 127

Translation

(German, French)

Die großen Gedanken kommen aus dem Herzen.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Réflexions et maximes

Les grandes pensées viennent du coeur.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Réflexions et maximes

Quotes about heart:

Hope stole into my heart against my will.”
Jean Racine - Phèdre

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.”
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town.”
Paul Verlaine - Il pleure dans mon coeur

heart

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches,
And here is my heart which beats only for you. ”
Paul Verlaine - Green

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
Oscar Wilde

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Quotes about thought:

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
Soren Kierkegaard

Lucidity adds beauty to profound thoughts.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

Eloquence is a painting of thought.”
Blaise Pascal

Language serves not only to express thoughts, but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.”
Bertrand Russell - Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits

All about thought...

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues also said...

No man is weak by choice.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

weakness

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

good

Consciousness of our powers augments them.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

strength

Few maxims are true in every respect.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

Reason does not know the interests of the heart.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflection.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

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