Pastoral Resources

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.

I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know?

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.