Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Quotes

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

I'm constantly thinking.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

I want to get people thinking.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

My goal is to invite readers to think along with me and draw their own conclusions.

We started this mostly from an intellectual place.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

To live is to think.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

I always like to think on a problem before reading about it.

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

The one thing I've tried to do is be insightful.

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.