Philosophy & Thought: Deep Quotes

"Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain"

Ray Kurzweil, Inventor

"I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it"

Theodore Sturgeon, Writer

"Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive"

Nikos Kazantzakis, Writer

"Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists"

Alfred Rosenberg, Soldier

"The future belongs to crowds"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose"

John B. S. Haldane, Scientist

"In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality"

John Archibald Wheeler, Physicist

"We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy"

E. L. Doctorow, Author

"I became a human placebo"

Bobby Sherman, Musician

"I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"I like the big questions"

Christy Turlington, Model

"Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples"

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Philosopher

"It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society"

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Philosopher

"I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make"

Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher

"The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows"

Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher

"Man is an imagining being"

Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher

"We are trying to live-as if we were an experiment-conducted by the future"

Marge Piercy, Writer

"The least touchable object in the world is the eye"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me"

Alfred de Musset, Writer

"Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement"

David Bohm, Scientist

"One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness"

David Bohm, Scientist

"Language is froth on the surface of thought"

John McCarthy, Politician

"Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish"

Carrie P. Snow, Writer

"This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind"

Djuna Barnes, Novelist

"Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact"

Djuna Barnes, Novelist

"In general, we are least aware of what our minds do best"

Marvin Minsky, Scientist

"Dreaming men are haunted men"

Stephen Vincent Benet, Poet

"Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent"

Frantz Fanon, Psychologist

"People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day"

Lee Grant, Actress

"Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

"Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs"

Pierre Schaeffer, Composer

"It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

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