ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.
A striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself, whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.
Tag: thought abnormal independant bierce detested
I'd say we're all just ghosts on a wire seeking the prick of an electric thought.
Robert FanneyA man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
James AllenA man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.
James AllenTag: education choice mind thought
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich BonhoefferTag: inspirational thought action responsibility
...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.
Jonah LehrerTag: thought
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
Anthony de MelloTag: thought awareness concepts
A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
Anthony de MelloAs a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil. Without the stern, joyless rabbis and their 613 dour prohibitions, we might have avoided the whole nightmare of the Old Testament, and the brutal, crude wrenching of that into prophecy-derived Christianity, and the later plagiarism and mutation of Judaism and Christianity into the various rival forms of Islam. Much of the time, I do concur with Voltaire, but not without acknowledging that Judaism is dialectical. There is, after all, a specifically Jewish version of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, with a specifically Jewish name—the Haskalah—for itself. The term derives from the word for 'mind' or 'intellect,' and it is naturally associated with ethics rather than rituals, life rather than prohibitions, and assimilation over 'exile' or 'return.' It's everlastingly linked to the name of the great German teacher Moses Mendelssohn, one of those conspicuous Jewish hunchbacks who so upset and embarrassed Isaiah Berlin. (The other way to upset or embarrass Berlin, I found, was to mention that he himself was a cousin of Menachem Schneerson, the 'messianic' Lubavitcher rebbe.) However, even pre-enlightenment Judaism forces its adherents to study and think, it reluctantly teaches them what others think, and it may even teach them how to think also.
Christopher HitchensTag: life education ethics evil christianity religion atheism thought antisemitism islam intellect prohibitions enlightenment rabbis voltaire exile study free-thought germans judaism prophecy old-testament assimilation plagiarism return 18th-century monotheism rituals dialectics chabad-messianism haskalah isaiah-berlin menachem-mendel-schneerson messianism moses-mendelssohn rebbes
Boring is the right thought at the wrong time.
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