Quotes about Thought

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.

One who states and proposes this scheme makes several claims about the Dinge: that they are not in space and time, for example, and more poignantly, that our concepts don't apply to them (applying only to the phenomena), so that we cannot refer to or think about them. But if we really can't think the Dinge, then we can't think about them (and can't whistle them either); if we can't think about them, we can't so much as entertain the thought that there are such things. The incoherence is patent.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

I make dance music because I love to dance. But I want to think at the same time.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

For God himself the height of feeling free Must have been His success in simile When at sight of you He thought of me.

I think you had better learn to control that imagination of yours,Anne, if you can't distinguish between what is real and what isnt.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.