Quotes about thinking
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Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.
Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860The World as Will and Representation, vol. 2, ch. 31 (“On Genius”)Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind…
Erwin Schrödinger1887–1961“The Oneness of Mind”, as translated in Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World’s Great Physicists (1984) edited by Ken Wilber- ESE. F. Schumacher1911–1977Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered (1973), p. 35.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XII: On old age, Line 11.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury1671–1713Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), Vol. 1, p. 11; “A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm”.‘Tis the hardest thing in the world to be a good Thinker, without being a strong Self-Examiner.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury1671–1713Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), Vol. 1, p. 92; “Soliloquy: or Advice to an Author”.There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
O judgement, thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act V, Scene I, spoken by TheseusIn contextThe brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o’er a cold decree
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597), Act I, Scene II, spoken by PortiaIn contextWhen to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
