Hannah Arendt Quotes

every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought.

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.

I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.

We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.