Quote by Douglas R. Hofstadter

“We will enter into a new phase in which the Leviathan, so to speak, will become the body formed to make possible the incarnation…

— Julius Evola

“Whoever has the power in society determines what can be studied, determines what can be observed, determines what can be thought.”

— Michael Crichton

But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Continually reorder the mind and the mental structures, the ability to think in prescribed ways, to analyze in prescribed ways, and to stop thought…

— Frederick Lenz

This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the…

— Edmond Halley

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like…

— James Joseph Sylvester

“Achievement of any kind is the crown of effort,the diadem of thought.By the aid of self-control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and well-directed thought a man…

— James Allen

“Our world is peaks and valleys, with rules in great abundance. But in the minds of great thinkers there is power. Think openly and…

— E.J. Norris

“Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“for example, to see whether in the developing subject, i.e. the child, integers are directly constructed starting from class logic by biunivocal correspondence and…

— Jean Piaget

“[Higher-order consciousness] involves the ability to construct a socially based selfhood, to model the world in terms of the past and the future, and…

— James David Lewis-Williams

We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being brought to…

— Thomas Reid