“What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.”
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Thinking Quotes — page 978 of 4756
“You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking”
“Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!”
“Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.”
“Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.”
“God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!”
“Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.”
“The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.”
“"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not even as a child. Perhaps I have never been childlike enough for them? I do not by any means know atheism as a result; even less as an event: It is a matter of course with me, from instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers - at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!”
“To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.”
“An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.”
“It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.”
“The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.”
“Thinking evil is making evil.”
“We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.”
“The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.”
“When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.”
“Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.”
“Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.”
“Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.”