Concrete Quote by Herbert Marcuse

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

— Theodor Adorno

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

— Aldous Huxley

“These few digressions serve as the basis for the easier understanding and acceptance of the Absolute as mind—idea (spirit), knowledge, thought—not only as energy…

— Dejan Stojanovic

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given…

— Dallas Willard

“But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also…

— René Descartes

Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To the extent…

— Herbert Marcuse

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

— James Russell Lowell

“State philosophy reposes on a double identity: of the thinking subject, and of the concepts it creates and to which it lends its own…

— Gilles Deleuze

Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture…

— Leon Trotsky

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he…

— Blaise Pascal

As a person thinks, feels, and believes, so is the condition of his or her mind, body, and circumstances.

— Joseph Murphy

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

— Noam Chomsky