For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
First comes the thought; then, organization of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity.
Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.[De certaines pensées sont des prières. Il y a des moments où, quelle que soit l’attitude du corps, l’âme est à genoux.]
But the most terrible thing about wicked thoughts is that evil minds soon grow familiar with them.[Mais le terrible des mauvaises idées, c’est que peu à peu les mauvais esprits se familiarisent avec elles.]
Book! you lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You’ll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots![Weil sie nämlich keine Gedanken auszutauschen haben, tauschen sie Karten aus und suchen einander Gulden abzunehmen. O, klägliches Geschlecht!]
