Honore De Balzac Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Thoughtful Quotes

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

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Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

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We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

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And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.

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Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

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To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

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my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion.

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Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

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A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

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Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.

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She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

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If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.

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Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.

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How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

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We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.

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Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.

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