“So," said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe——all its matter and forms of energy——arise out of thought.”
Source: Brother Odd
“I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself with happy people.”
Source: The Science of Single: One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love
“And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.”
Source: Brother Odd
“Thought is my strength and love is my power.”
“The mind is the laboratory where products, both fake and genuine are manufactured. People grow wild weeds, others grow flourishing flowers!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“What, to many, passes for thought, is usually a compound of prejudice, desire, and whim.”
Source: What shall we defend?: Essays and addresses
“I, too, head for the Baths of Caracalla,
thinking—with my old, magnificent
privilege of thinking…
(And let there still be a god in me that thinks,
lost, weak, and childish,
yet whose voice is so human
it is almost a song.) Oh, to leave
this prison of poverty!
To be free of the yearning
that makes these ancient nights so splendid!
He who knows yearning, and he who does not,
have something in common: man’s desires are humble.”
Source: Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini, The: A Bilingual Edition
“What has to be accepted, the given, is forms of life.' (Wittgenstein) This is the fact, the given, from which all thinking must start; and thinking, which starts from this fact, is in turn itself but another form of life.”
Source: The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization
“With no one to confide in, she'd held the argument inside her own head and naturally found a way to dissolve facts into concepts and concepts into explanations that in the end explained nothing at all.”
Source: Interlands
“People who achieve big things are those who decide to try ideas that were previously rated and graded as impossibilities. “Impossibility” never exists!”
Source: Daily Drive 365