Deep Thought Quotes - Page 7

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.

Language buries, but does not resurrect.

Focusing on one's own purpose is a matter of considering what you want to do, why you want to do it, and how you will do it. Easy questions, but they do provide deep thought.

I mean, I can't say that I've had many deep thoughts because I traveled alone, but it's good to be with myself in the quiet.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,-or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge's phrase, for unity in variety.

There's nothing more deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist. That's the most deep thought of all. ... I can't think of anything more deep than that right.

It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.

Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two - and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was.

We go where our deepest desires take us.

Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

I am not superstitious, but the first time I saw this medal, bearing the venerated likeness of John Calvin, I kissed it, imagining that no one saw the action. I was very greatly surprised when I received this magnificent present, which shall be passed round for your inspection. On the one side is John Calvin with his visage worn by disease and deep thought, and on the other side is a verse fully applicable to him: 'He endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.'

they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things

If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and you wouldn't have an opportunity.

Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

If you want to feel good, be rational.

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!