He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass.
James AllenTag: thinking environment mind thought
At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink,
But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.
Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don’t understand. Thoughts that aren’t even true—that aren’t really how we feel—but they’re running through our heads anyway because they’re interesting to think about.
If you could hear other people’s thoughts, you’d overhear things that are true as well as things that are completely random. And you wouldn’t know one from the other. It’d drive you insane. What’s true? What’s not? A million ideas, but what do they mean?
Tag: thinking meaning thoughts
The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.
Peter MedawarTag: science thinking evolution
And here, according to Trout, was the reason human beings could not reject ideas because they were bad: "Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enmity.
"The ideas Earthlings held didn't matter for hundreds of thousands of years, since they couldn't do much about them anyway. Ideas might as well be badges as anything.
"They even had a saying about the futility of ideas: 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'
"And then Earthlings discovered tools. Suddenly agreeing with friends could be a form of suicide or worse. But agreements went on, not for the sake of common sense or decency or self-preservation, but for friendliness.
"Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead. And even when they built computers to do some thinking for them, they designed them not so much for wisdom as for friendliness. So they were doomed. Homicidal beggars could ride.
Tag: friendship thinking ideas
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
Christopher HitchensTag: thinking opinions skepticism independent-thought critical-thinking
Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.
Siri HustvedtMy dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.
William ShakespeareTag: humor thinking shakespeare macbeth brain banquo
Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.
Peter StraubTag: thinking intellectualism peter-straub
Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally.
Fernando PessoaTag: life thinking spiritual contemplation
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