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“To me it’s weird when animals pause because they seem so intelligent, but maybe that’s because I associate pausing with thought.”

Book:Normal People

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“The utmost mission of Mind is to train our obscure consciousness which has emerged out of the dark prison of Matter, to enlighten its blind instincts, random intuitions, vague perceptions till it shall become capable of this greater light and this higher ascension. Mind is a passage, not a culmination.”

Mind Process Consciousness Evolution Enlightenment Thought Ascension Sri Aurobindo

Book:The Life Divine

Source: The Life Divine

“Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating useful regularities and seeks truth, it is obliged to legitimate the rules of its own game.”

Truth Science Knowledge Thought Postmodernism Scientism Narratives Language Game Metanarratives

Book:The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

“If you fail to sow good thoughts in your mind, the weeds of evil thoughts will take root there and eventually they will take up all the space and not let good thoughts flourish.”

Mind Thought Root Weeds Eventually Flourish

Book:31 Ways to Happiness

Source: 31 Ways to Happiness

“Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather.”

Happiness Business

Author:Santosh Kalwar

“Thoughts arise in mind, Watch them pass over like clouds, Then they fall away”

Meditation Thought Fall Away Arising And Passing Away Buddhist Wisdom

Book:17: Haiku Poems

Source: 17: Haiku Poems

“If you advocate for the censorship of speech that does not expressly incite violence, limit your own vocabulary to a set number of words for one week. Cease to use several common words or phrases you often use and watch as your ability to communicate and think diminish. Now do you still want censorship knowing it is not just the limiting of speech but thought? If you do, you may wish to look inward about why oppressive impulses come so easily when you disagree with others.”

Speech Thought Oppression Censorship

Author:Carmine Savastano

“By the mid-seventeenth century, the visible image has assumed far greater reality than the invisible thought.”

Invisible Thought Visible Image Seventeenth Century

Book:How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe

Source: How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe

“Think of all those times you've desperately tried to come up with solutions or concepts to no avail, only for them to drift into view when least expected. The difficulty with obsession is that there might be focus without ideas.”

Ideas Thought Unconscious Mind

Book:Lost and Found: Memory, Identity and Who We Become When We're No Longer Ourselves

Source: Lost and Found: Memory, Identity and Who We Become When We're No Longer Ourselves

“The legacy is the distance between thought and its transmission in words.”

Words Thought Legacy

Author:Alan Maiccon

“The future must be sighted with a noble eye. The present human being requires nobility.”

Future Thought Present

Author:Alan Maiccon

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