Quotes for: thought

Quotes for: thought

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

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

An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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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

Eloquence is a painting of thought.
Blaise Pascal

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

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

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

The thought of death betrays us, for it makes us forget to live.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

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Language can also be compared with a sheet of paper: thought is the front and the sound the back; one cannot cut the front with out cutting the back at the same time; likewise in language, one can neither divide sound from thought nor thought from sound;
Ferdinand de Saussure - Course in General Linguistics

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

Our deeds, our feelings, our thoughts, and our sensations just happen of themselves, as the rain falls and the water flows along the valley.
Alan Watts - In My Own Way

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli

My thought is part of the meaning of the world, and hence I use a part of the world as a symbol to express my thought.
Henry David Thoreau - Journal

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell - Politics and the English Language

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason

Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.
Paul Valéry

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Among all the different expressions which may render one of our thoughts, only one is the right one.
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

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The key to every man is his thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols

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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.
Hermann Hesse

Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Henry David Thoreau

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I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable, if tasted in the house.
Henry David Thoreau

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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
Charles de Gaulle

The order and connection of the thought is identical to with the order and connection of the things.
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics

The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.
Soren Kierkegaard

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