“Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.”
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Thinking Quotes — page 569 of 4756
“What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!”
“Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.”
“One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.”
“My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.”
“Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.”
“It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.”
“Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.”
“Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride price and child marriage, and to enforce women to be involved in school. Every time, the reaction from the traditionalists was one of contempt and scorn and at times outright rebellion. I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.”
“The film [Kite Runner] was not as big a hit in the United States as it was worldwide, I think it may have been swallowed up by all the other movies it had to go up against.”
“What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.”
“Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.”
“There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.”
“I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we're going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody.”
“I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.”
“Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side”
“Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.”
“He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.”
“I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.”
“The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, "Where is the best place to go to?" He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages--heaven for climate, and hell for society.”