My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
But even thoughts, insubstantial as they seem, require an anchorage if they are not to revolve and circle around themselves; they too weigh down under nothingness.
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.
Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable, if tasted in the house.
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
The order and connection of the thought is identical to with the order and connection of the things.
The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.
A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
Our thoughts are free.
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
The dream is the luxury of thinking.
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
All original thinking takes place in images, and this is why imagination is so necessary an instrument of thought, and minds that lack imagination will never accomplish much.
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
