Quotes on Thinking

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.

I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?

That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of election is well secured and regulated & the exercise of the legislature, executive, and judiciary authorities, is vested in select persons, chosen really and not nominally by the people, will in my opinion be most likely to be happy, regular and durable.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought to be harmed in his body, name, or goods, for mere speculative opinions, or his external way of worship? Do you love truth for truth's sake; and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others.

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state

A book is a machine to think with.

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.

I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowadays, they're afraid that somebody will name what everybody knows. Have you practical people ever thought that that's all it would take to blast your whole, big, complex structure, with all your laws and guns - just somebody naming the exact nature of what you're doing?

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Fifteen per cent of the population believe the moon landing was actually staged in a movie lot in Arizona and somewhat fewer still believe the Earth is flat. I think they all get together with the global warming deniers on a Saturday night and party

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.