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10 quotes

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Topic·Power of thought✕clear

Scientific literature

Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam which is everything.

The Value of Science · 1905

★ 5.1

My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly. There is so much to do. You can wander off in space or in time, set out for Tierra del Fuego or for King Midas's court. You can visit the woman you love, slide down beside her and stroke her still-sleeping face.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly · 1997

★ 4.3

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 3.9

O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer’s heat?

William Shakespeare

1595

★ 3.8

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1878

★ 3.7

Play · Tragedy (play)

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet · 1616

★ 3.6

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

The Will to Believe · 1896

★ 3.6

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

Sententiae · 43 BC

★ 2.1

Religious literature

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

1922

★ 1.3

Psychological literature

We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.

The Varieties of Religious Experience · 1902

★ 1.0