Human Thought Quotes - Page 5

• The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

  Dan Brown

  Spiritual, Numbers, Mind

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• External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Action, Internals, Humans

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3350, Manonmani Publishers

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• If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Men, Effort, Ambitious

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1857). “The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe”, p.508

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• If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty Being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgment on Himself. How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to Him?

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  "Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium". Book published by the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life, Inc., New York, 1941.

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• I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective and the subjective, are actually united, when the tormenting conflicts or contradictions between my consciousness and my body will have been factually resolved or discarded.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Science, Psychology, Important

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• Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Love, Men, Secret

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.

  Dogen

  Views, Mountain, Scales

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• If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind works in certain patterns: the mind organizes facts in story form; it is your commonality with that body of human thought that makes a good book, not its estrangement from the common values that humans share.

  Janet Morris

  Book, Writing, Unique

  Interview with Michael A. Ventrella, michaelaventrella.com. May 15, 2012.

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• ...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.

  Victor Hugo

  Risk, Fascination, World

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous step backwards--a step that has been responsible for more human misery than any other idea in known history.

  Isaac Bonewits

  Ideas, Crowns, Facts

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• The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade not merely all nations but also all of human thought.

  John Gresham Machen

  Christian, Long, Connections

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• The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish a multitude of dogmatic barriers by a single stroke, and to arouse a spirit of rebellion against all ancient authorities whose positive and unauthenticated statements were contradicted by modern science.

  Francis Galton

  Science, Development, Spirit

  Francis Galton (2015). “Memories of My Life”, p.211, Routledge

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• The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here that the stereotype of the programmer, sitting in a dim room, growling from behind Coke cans, has its origins. The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-It notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

  Ellen Ullman

  Yellow, Needs, Machines

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• There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software is made up of superhuman as well as non-superhuman thoughts.

  Kedar Joshi

  Real, Computer, Consciousness

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• The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.

  Albert Pike

  Writing, Echoes, Leaving

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• We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We're rewriting the history of human thought with what we're doing.

  Steve Jobs

  Artist, Thinking, Creating

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• If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time.

  Charles Fort

  Science, Tree, Growth

  Charles Fort (2014). “LO!”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Giving, Doe, Absolute Truth

  "Materialism and Empirio-criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy (1908)". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Chapter Two: "The Theory of Knowledge of Empirio-Criticism and of Dialectical Materialism". Collected Works, Volume 14, www.marxists.org.

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• Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Effort, Romance

  Alfred North Whitehead (2012). “Nature and Life”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

  Daniel Dennett

  Thinking, Long, Mind

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• Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Political, Mastery, Hegemony

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• It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us. We need to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us - and the key here is constant familiarity. The nature of human thoughts and emotions is such that the more you engage in them, the more you consciously develop them, the more powerful they become.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Compassion, Keys

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• When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock. To acknowledge human nature, many think, is to endorse racism, sexism, war, greed, genocide, nihilism, reactionary politics, and neglect of children and the disadvantaged. Any claim that the mind has an innate organization strikes people not as a hypothesis that might be incorrect but as a thought it is immoral to think.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, War, Thinking

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.14, Penguin

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• The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And that language is a trap, that a dark evolutionary force has created languages to limit human thought. That writers are overrated fools. That all religions come from ancient comic writers. And the ultimate goal of comics is same as the purpose of humanity – to break free from language.

  Manu Joseph

  Dark, Thinking, People

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• Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations that could initiate the next change in paradigm for human thought.

  Michael Persinger

  Self, Next, Assumption

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