Quotes, maxims and aphorisms - thought - Buboquote.com

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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But even thoughts, insubstantial as they seem, require an anchorage if they are not to revolve and circle around themselves; they too weigh down under nothingness.

Stefan Zweig - The Royal Game /

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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg /

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

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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A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Mahatma Gandhi /

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There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

Alphonse de Lamartine /

Our thoughts are free.

Marcus Tullius Cicero /

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four /

An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature /

The dream is the luxury of thinking.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

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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 /

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Theodor W. Adorno

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Bertrand Russell

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

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

René Descartes

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Honore de Balzac /

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.