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“Thoughts without content are void; intuitions without conceptions, blind.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“Let each one examine his thoughts, and he will find them all occupied with the past and the future.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“Death is a cessation of the impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the strings which move the appetites, and of the discursive movements of the thoughts, and of the service to the flesh.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Language!—the blood of the soul, Sir! into which our thoughts run and out of which they grow!” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
“I must wash myself clean with abstract thoughts, transparent as water.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
“Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Feelings are of four sorts: Sensations, Thoughts, Emotions, and Volitions. What are called Perceptions are merely a particular case of Belief, and Belief is a kind of thought. Actions are merely volitions followed by an effect.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“We are so accustomed to considering our own thoughts private.” Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“I didn’t have any of these dreams or thoughts but I was going to acquire them.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning, we've cried. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts, we've shouted to ourselves.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.” Thomas Paine, Common Sense
“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“We are thus presented with a new task which had no previous existence: the task, that is, of investigating the relations between the manifest content of dreams and the latent dream-thoughts, and of tracing out the processes by which the latter...” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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