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A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
Alan Watts / 



A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.




Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson / 






Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi / 



Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.




Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 



Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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Philosophize, to think your life and to live your thoughts: for that is what philosophy is.
André Comte-Sponville / 






People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
Meister Eckhart / 






All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 






Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
Carl Gustav Jung / 






Idiots: Those who do not think like us.
Gustave Flaubert - Dictionary of Received Ideas / 






Music is noise that thinks.
Victor Hugo / 






Men should strive to think much and know little.
Democritus / 






For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 






I think, therefore I am.
René Descartes - Discourse on the Method / 



I think, therefore I am.




I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.
Alphonse de Lamartine - La Marseillaise de la Paix. — Réponse à M Becker / 






To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 






He who has thought most deeply loves what is most alive.
Friedrich Hölderlin / 






Sometimes I think. Sometimes I am.
Paul Valéry - Tel quel / 






I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso / 






Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius - Analects / 






He who thinks little, errs much.
Leonardo da Vinci / 



He who thinks little, errs much.

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Unthinking people are like sleepwalkers.
Hannah Arendt / 






Everything clever has already been thought; we must only try to think it again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections / 






All is said, we have come too late; for more than seven thousand years there have been men, thinking.
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères / 






The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Gabrielle Chasnel, dîte Coco Chanel / 






What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.
Hannah Arendt / 






We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.
Arthur Schopenhauer / 






If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer... And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.
Hannah Arendt / 






If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
Bertrand Russell / 






There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 






The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think.
Albert Einstein / 










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