#thinking

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#fact #hinders #individual #logically #means

Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life. ↗

— René Descartes

#happiness #philosophy #purpose #thinking #beauty

There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#around #feeling #get #lot #many

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#arrived #deliberate #go #stop #take

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.' ↗

— Jared Harris

#again #audition #ever #i #i remember

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#being #compounds #dead-end #dead-end street #futility

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him. ↗

— S. E. Hinton

#being #go #him #i #narrator

But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#answer #anyway #doing #how #however

If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#everyone #just #knew #laugh #lock

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#cannot #further #get #help #interest