“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
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Thinking Quotes — page 798 of 4756
“It's pretty much what a lot of committed Catholics are making of [Pope Francis]. They're thrilled, they're refreshed, they think it's a breath of fresh air.”
“What does he [Pope Francis] mean, "Who am I to judge?" People think he's fantastic, but they also wonder how some of these pieces fit.”
“What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.”
“All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.”
“There is more in every person's soul than we think.”
“Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.”
“The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.”
“If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.”
“The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.”
“An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.”
“Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.”
“If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of hisown comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.”
“Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.”
“Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals, so he is, and so he appears; he does not see that his son is the son of his thoughts and of his actions; that fortunes are not exceptions but fruits; that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always; no miscellany, no exemption, no anomaly,--but method, and an even web; and what comes out, that was put in.”
“I think no virtue goes with size.”
“Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.”
“When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.”
“Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.”
“Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.”