"Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally."

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"Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally."

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"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"

Joan Didion, American Author

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"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."

John B. S. Haldane, British Scientist

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"I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play."

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"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter."

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived."

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"If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity."

Johann Most, German Revolutionary

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"Thought is the mental imagery of what you want to do, have or achieve."

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"If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do."

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"I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays."

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"Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture."

Culture

"Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates."

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"People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change."

Change

"A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue."

Development

"In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe."

Man

"This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it."

Thought

"We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process."

Thought

"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained."

Knowledge

"Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times."

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"This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society."

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