Quotes on Thinking

Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.

To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.

The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.

There are few people who think what a solemn thing it is to be a Christian. I guess there is not a believer in the world who knows what a miracle it is to be kept a believer.

Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas?

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.

There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.

More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.

Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.

I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that and then I put it out there and say to you, "What do you think?" I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.