High thoughts must have high language.
It is a mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Our life is what our thoughts make of it.
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus”
“I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.”
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand
Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It’s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don’t want to die
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
“To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world’s sky.”
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Art is a line around your thoughts.
Even when I am being idle, I have plenty of food for thought, both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
With your faults, dont hurry. Dont correct them thoughtlessly. What would you put in their place?
Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings. Always darker, emptier and simpler.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
Every response, whether it be an act directed towards the outside world or an act internalized as thought, takes the form of an adaptation or, better, of a re-adaptation.
The shortest words 'yes' and 'no' are those which require the most thought.
All my thoughts tenderly surround my family.
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought.
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
where are the waters i would cross over, without a thought— the last sea without land on the other side?
“In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
A thought, once uttered, is untrue
Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.