Thought (n.) that is independent was born of flight from the world: only by turning away from the gods in things could man win the sovereignty of the idea, and later return to nature with steady reflection.
Thought (n.) is as good as the deed where the image is still as real as perception — and even educated patients must constantly be reminded that thinking is not doing.
A Thought (n.) is as real an event as any other, yet admitting "I actually thought that" can cost people a great moral effort.
Thought (n.) we assume we made ourselves — and curiously, we feel most responsible precisely for the most impossible ones, though they are objective occurrences like dreams.
Thought (n.) has no size, length or shape — for a living picture of a non-spatial, fourth-dimensional being, thought itself is the best model.
Thought (n.) is declared 'unreal' if it refers to nothing tangible — though it may have left undeniable traces of its reality, such as a painful hole in our bank balance.
Thought (n.) was originally revelation, not invented but perceived — seen or heard like an outside event, with the ego more its object than its subject.
Thought (n.) is mine only when I have thought it — just as money given as a present is not “my money” to my benefactor.
Thought (n.) came to man before he learned to produce it: he did not think, he perceived his mind functioning.
A Thought (n.) has no proper reality for the West: we build the atom bomb out of a phantasmagoria of supposedly nonexistent thoughts, yet find it absurd to call thought itself real.
Thought (n.) or "thought" was the old name for the product to be extracted from matter, betraying a faint suspicion that psychic contents were being projected into it.
Thought (n.) left free has an irresistible urge to break away from the realism of fact and build a world of its own.