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Quotes about thought
thought
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
Soren Kierkegaard
freedom
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thought
Great thoughts come from the heart.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
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Reflexions and Maxims
heart
thought
An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
thought
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
Language
thought
Eloquence is a painting of thought.”
Blaise Pascal
painting
thought
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
-
Tractatus Logico-philosophicus
logic
philosophy
theory
thought
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
John Locke
-
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
action
thought
Lucidity adds beauty to profound thoughts.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
-
Reflexions and Maxims
clarity
thought
Philosophy is the microscope of thought.”
Victor Hugo
-
Les Misérables
philosophy
thought
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
thought
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
Language
thought
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.”
Bertrand Russell
thought
time
wisdom
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
thought
water
Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
Benjamin Disraeli
hero
thought
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”
Marcus Aurelius
soul
thought
The key to every man is his thought.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
thought
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
freedom
opinion
thought
work
The order and connection of the thought is identical to with the order and connection of the things.”
Baruch Spinoza
-
Ethics
thing
thought
An action is the perfection and publication of thought.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Nature
action
perfection
thought
Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.”
Paul Valéry
thought
The dream is the luxury of thinking.”
Jules Renard
dream
thought
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”
Jean Cocteau
thought
All original thinking takes place in images, and this is why imagination is so necessary an instrument of thought, and minds that lack imagination will never accomplish much.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
-
The World as Will and Representation
imagination
thought
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.”
Theodor W. Adorno
thought
to understand
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
William Shakespeare
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
thought
word
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.”
Soren Kierkegaard
life
passion
soul
thought
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.”
Isaac Newton
thought
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