Quotes, maxims and aphorisms - thought - Buboquote.com

Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - De oratore /

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

Soren Kierkegaard /

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding /

Great thoughts come from the heart.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods /

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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 - Pensées /

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

Chance gives thoughts, and chance takes them away.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées /

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 /

Thoughts at peace. That is the goal someone who philosophizes longs for.

Ludwig Wittgenstein /

One thought, fills immensity.

William Blake /

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

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 /

He could refract an idea which everyone thought simple into seven others, as the prism does with sunlight, each finer than the other, then gather together a host of others to recreate the white light of the sun, where others merely saw disorder and confusion.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg /

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 /

Your own senses you shall think to the end!

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

Direct your thought to what is being said. Let your mind gain an entrance into what is occurring and who is producing it.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

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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.

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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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