Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall.

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.

Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.

One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.

Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.

The mind does different things in performance, and conscious thought sometimes takes a backseat.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the process of thinking is carried on.

The deductive reasons for a course of action usually follow rather than precede the course of action. Thought follows life.

I write from the voice in my head.

To me, it seems more realistic to my thought process when things feel a little scattered in the lyrics. Being disjointed is not that abstract of a thing when I think about how my brain works - I feel like it's almost more realistic. That's how my brain works.

I realised quite early that by the time I articulate my thoughts into words, I'm on to another thought. And what comes out wasn't what I thought of exactly. So not talking was a better option.

Allen Ginsburg was wrong about a lot of things, but especially when he said, 'First thought, best thought.'

I have a very linear mind.

In my head I'm talking all the time.

My lyrics are quite train of thought, and they are all over the place, but they evoke something.

One day, I was just thinking about something, and then - you know when you think, and you have that inner voice in your head? I realized it was in English.

But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.

Thoughts are steered in different ways.

Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.

There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.