Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought.
StendhalTags: love passion psychology thought
If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.
Kristin CashoreOur acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.
George S. ClasonUncouth, clannish, lumbering about the confines of Space and Time with a puzzled expression on his face and a handful of things scavenged on the way from gutters, interglacial littorals, sacked settlements and broken relationships, the Earth-human has no use for thinking except in the service of acquisition. He stands at every gate with one hand held out and the other behind his back, inventing reasons why he should be let in. From the first bunch of bananas, his every sluggish fit or dull fleabite of mental activity has prompted more, more; and his time has been spent for thousands of years in the construction and sophistication of systems of ideas that will enable him to excuse, rationalize, and moralize the grasping hand.
His dreams, those priceless comic visions he has of himself as a being with concerns beyond the material, are no more than furtive cannibals stumbling round in an uncomfortable murk of emotion, trying to eat each other. Politics, religion, ideology — desperate, edgy attempts to shift the onus of responsibility for his own actions: abdications. His hands have the largest neural representation in the somesthetic cortex, his head the smallest; but he's always trying to hide the one behind the other.
Tags: cynicism human-nature thought greed
The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on
Our SOULS.
Tags: soul thought wrong consequences deeds
Life is difficult.
M. Scott PeckTags: life truth thinking reality purpose wonder thought living excitement truism real reality-check wonderment purposeful mentation
A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.
Lev Semyonovich VygotskyTags: language psychology thought word cognition
The only way to make a library safe is to lock people out of it. As long as they are allowed to read the books 'any old time they have a mind to,' libraries will remain the nurseries of heresy and independence of thought. They will, in fact, preserve that freedom which is a far more important part of our lives than any ideology or orthodoxy, the freedom that dissolves orthodoxies and inspires solutions to the ever-changing challenges of the future. I hope that your library and mine will continue in this way to be dangerous for many years to come.
Edmund S. MorganTags: libraries books freedom thought ideas
We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [...] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
MaimonidesTags: opinions thought ideas views habit custom
Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him
Jeremy AldanaTags: humor inspirational intelligence philosophy belief god faith thought quantum-physics theology metaphysics idea light-hearted
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