#thoughts

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the "I," under another form, continues the task of existence. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

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I don't like being left to my own thoughts. ↗

— David Sedaris

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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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