Concepts Quote by Rudolf Steiner

“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world,…

— Aldous Huxley

Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called the path…

— Kenny Smith

“...our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-estimation of the magic of words and the belief that…

— Sigmund Freud

“One of the difficulties of thinking clearly about anything is that it is almost impossible not to form our ideas in words which have…

— A.A. Milne

Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.

— Agnes Denes

“ He was of the opinion... that his ideas were generally misunderstood and distorted even by those who professed to be his disciples. He…

— Georg Henrik von Wright

“I used to think when I was younger and writing that each idea had a certain shape and when I started to study Greek…

— Anne Carson

A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.

— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a…

— Emile M. Cioran

“Metaphysics is… at the root of all other sciences, which indeed presuppose it. It has been abandoned by the modern mind, which seems to…

— Dom Eugene Boylan

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the…

— Franz Grillparzer

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

— Robert D. Richardson