People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Great thoughts come from the heart.
An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.
Language serves not only to express thoughts, but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
Eloquence is a painting of thought.
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Lucidity adds beauty to profound thoughts.
The thought of death betrays us, for it makes us forget to live.
Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
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;
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of 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.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.
Among all the different expressions which may render one of our thoughts, only one is the right one.
The key to every man is his thought.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
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.
Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
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.
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
The order and connection of the thought is identical to with the order and connection of the things.
The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.