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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. -- Havelock Ellis
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. -- H. L. Mencken
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. -- Daniel Webster
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
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
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
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
Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought. -- Dogen
Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought. -- Dan Brown
Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself. -- James Gleick
The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare. -- Herbert A. Simon
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There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things. -- Murray Bookchin
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? -- Albert Einstein
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
Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion. -- Toni Morrison
As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good. -- James Gleick
The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought. -- Gary L. Francione
...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated. -- Victor Hugo
For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals only with evaluations of human thought and action: it cannot justifiably speak of facts and relationships between facts. -- Albert Einstein
If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought. -- Nikola Tesla
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend. -- Daniel Dennett
We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else. -- Aristotle
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way. -- Lewis Thomas
Early human thought proceeded by metaphor, -- Gerald Edelman
The human condition: lost in thought. -- Eckhart Tolle
Universe is nothing, but human thought. -- Farid Huseynli
External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought. -- Swami Vivekananda
Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color. -- Gregory Maguire
Perish each thought of human pride, let God alone be magnified. -- Philip Doddridge
No thought which ever stirred A human breast should be untold. -- Robert Browning
People wanted to be redeemed, she thought. Everyone did. We're only human. -- Elizabeth Brundage
We teach mental literacy and radiant thinking; a revolution in human thought. -- Tony Buzan
words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses ... -- Freya Stark
How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought. -- Sylvia Plath
The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination. -- Bernard Werber
A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought. -- Honore de Balzac
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be. -- Abraham Maslow
I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls. -- Owen Wister
[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought. -- Edward Gibbon
Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought. -- Napoleon Hill
What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being. -- Rumi
Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity. -- C. S. Lewis
Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. -- Mahatma Gandhi
With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can. -- Roger Penrose
Human thought can literally transform the physical world .. we are the masters of our own universe -- Dan Brown
But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear. -- Paulo Coelho
I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts. -- Daniel Tammet
The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination. -- Doug Casey
The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason. -- John Haynes Holmes
Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it. -- Patricia Wentworth
People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else. -- Carl Lewis
The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling. -- Albert Einstein
The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art. -- Marilynne Robinson
The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought. -- Chogyam Trungpa
I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought. -- Lewis Thomas
For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best. -- Simon Critchley
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. -- Edward Teller
Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it. -- Yoko Ono
The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances. -- Mariella Frostrup
When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks. -- Erwin Chargaff
America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet. -- Dick Gregory
It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought. -- Napoleon Hill
In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has thought of. -- Muhammad
[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication. -- Edward Said
I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human - sort of horribly, inextricably human. -- Tim Daly
I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition. -- Jim Davis
A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child. -- Amy N. Stewart
And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice. -- Peter McWilliams
Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Today, when you combine the web with the iPad, you have the most advanced medium for human thought and communication ever created. -- Mike McCue
We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too. -- Edward Young
My irritation with Niles was growing, though. I had always thought the quiet man was the most overrated form of human life"." -- Pat Conroy
And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create. -- Dean Koontz
My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.. -- H. L. Mencken
Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak. -- Charlaine Harris
We could say that practically all the problems of the human race are due to the fact that thought is not proprioceptive. -- David Bohm
I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings. -- Bob Brown
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought. -- Helen Keller
The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception ... -- Celia Thaxter
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. -- Samuel Johnson
Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths. -- Vladimir Lenin
Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement? -- William John Locke
Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd. -- Dale Carnegie
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment... -- Edgar Allan Poe
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Most people have thought of ... climate change as a problem about the environment that is separate and distinct from problems of human wellbeing. -- Naomi Oreskes
Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point. -- Jeff Lindsay
No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have. -- Huston Smith
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. -- George Boole
There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment. -- Jojo Moyes
I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy. -- Jonathan Frakes
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. -- Voltaire
One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought. -- Jacob Bronowski
There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was there. -- Cassandra Clare
Perhaps, Howard thought, the curtains and murals and pastel angels are a mercy, a dim reflection of things fit for the fragility of human beings. -- Paul Harding
I never thought... that someone liked me... not like a demon... not like a half-demon... not even like human... just like... just like me!" -Inuyasha -- Rumiko Takahashi
No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope. -- Simone Weil
Of all the countries of the world America is the one where the movement of thought and human industry is the most continuous and swift. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention. -- Patch Adams
Pam said, "Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than most ... -- Charlaine Harris
This has suggested to some that the very structure of human thought is oppositional-that is to say, rational and associative, rather than linear and categorical. -- Marcel Danesi
The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras of other human beings. -- Frederick Lenz
The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras of other human beings. -- Frederick Lenz
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought. -- Roy H. Williams
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. -- Hippocrates
Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an individual soul. -- Peter Adamson
... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers. -- Madame de Stael
The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human. -- Donald Phillip Verene
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences. -- Albert Camus
The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel. -- Harriet Ann Jacobs

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