Philosophy of Mind Quotes · Page 68

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

— Quintilian

“RAGING MIND - A HAIKU Uncontrollable, Thoughts flow, attention decides, If there's peace, or pain!”

— Amogh Swamy

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

— Ira Glass

The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

— Paul Fix

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

— Lewis Grizzard

If you're looking in to deep night sky, you can get the deepest thoughts..

— Boris Kovalík

“Believing in negative thoughts is the single greatest obstruction to success.”

— Charles F. Glassman

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

— Ayn Rand

“Merely having thoughts is one thing. Consciously feeding them is quite another. You are powerful all the time, by way of your…

— David Allen

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

— Epictetus

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is…

— Carl Jung

This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me.…

— Anna Kamienska

Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle…

— Constance Hale

“There is no sphere of immanence, no realm in which my consciousness is fully at home and secure against all risk of…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis,” he later…

— Walter Isaacson

“It is so wearisome having to represent things. That is why I refuse to look at abstract art. It is much too…

— Bauvard

Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing;…

— Charlotte Mason

There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little…

— Samuel Johnson

“When you get up in the morning, you select what you want to wear, however you do not realise you can also…

— Carsten Ostergaard Pedersen

“Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material…

— James Allen

“Stop right now and watch your thoughts for a minute. Does this come naturally to you? Have you been practicing observing yourself…

— Brooke Castillo

It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind…

— Napoleon Hill

Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer,…

— Asher Peres

“Where we stand depends on where we sit." Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we…

— Stephen R. Covey

“Thought is really the most mischievous thing in life, the greatest criminal.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“First thought: It was a dream Second thought: No it wasn't Third thought: Crap”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“From henceforth, you will constantly think supernatural thoughts and take supernatural steps.”

— David O. Oyedepo

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

— Honore de Balzac

“Intensity of connection, Depth of emotion, Unified thoughts, No doubts in the significance of you.”

— Truth Devour

What we steadily, consciously, habitually think we are, that we tend to become.

— Ann Landers

Paradise is a state of consciousness. All you have to do is purify yourself and you automatically arrive.

— David Wolfe

People tend to have a government that reflects the level of consciousness of the majority of people who voted.

— Marianne Williamson

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

— Elbert Hubbard

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

— Emile Zola

Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

— Socrates

The greatest deception is the perception man has no option.

— Wesley Chambers

It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.

— Arthur Eddington

“Thought leadership is when a leader's thoughts are being used by leaders to lead others.”

— Onyi Anyado

“The future is 'now'—a realisation that fills my heart with love, dissolving all meaningless thoughts.”

— Raz Mihal