Quotes about Thought

The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.

Universes fashioned by words and concepts that work together to provide a more or less coherent frame of reference for all thought and action.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

It seems so to me, said his wife, as if she were producing a new thought.

The invisible world of thought and conduct had been the frequent subject of his musings; but the other, tangible world was close to him too, spreading like a rich populous plain between himself and the distant heights of speculation. The old doubts, the old dissatisfactions, hung on the edge of consciousness; but he was too profoundly Italian not to linger awhile in that atmosphere of careless acquiescence that is so pleasant a medium for the unhampered enjoyment of life. Some day

What is originality in art? Perhaps it is easier to define what it is not and this may be done by saying that it is never a willful rejection of what has been accepted as the necessary laws of various forms of art. Thus in reasoning originality relies not in discarding the necessary laws of thought, but in using them to express new intellectual conceptions. In poetry originality consists not in discarding the necessary laws of rhythm but in finding new rhythms within the limits of those laws.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts

There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.