#human thought

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#book #every #great #great ideas #human

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#everything #human #human thought #late #more

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. ↗

— Richard Powers

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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#civilization #cradle #eastern #exceptions #few

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. ↗

— Eugene Field

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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. ↗

— H. G. Wells

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