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Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
Jean de La Bruyère (1645 - 1696) French essayist and moralist Characters or the Manners of the Age
If man thinks about his physical or moral state, he usually discovers that he is ill.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) German poet, playwright, and scientist Sprüche in Prosa (Rudolf Steiner (ed.))
Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) British philosopher and mathematician
To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers
– or both.
Elizabeth Charles (1828 - 1896) British writer
Chronicle of the Schönberg-Cotta Family
The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778) French writer and philosopher
The brain is the means by which we think we think.
Julian Tuwim (1894 - 1953) Polish poet
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937) U.S. writer
The Call of Cthulhu
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
Ruth Benedict (1887 - 1948) U.S. anthropologist Patterns of Culture
A man's life is what his thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius (1