Collective Thought Quotes

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action of one alone.

Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.

Public opinion is no more than this. What people think that other people think.

One cannot be independent of the deep thinking of the people.

Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven't really paid much attention to thought as a process. We have engaged in thoughts, put we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. Why does thought require attention? Everything requires attention, really. If we ran machines without paying attention to them, they would break down. Our thought, too, is a process, and it requires attention, otherwise its going to go wrong.

Our ideas are only partly our ideas. Most of our ideas are abbreviations or residues of the thought of other people …. This means that the clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.

The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection...A new domain of psychical expansion- that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it.

Whatever people think, is.

What I think, a lot of people think. They're just too afraid to say it.

Social media is the wrong place to judge what India is thinking about.

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.

Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

Ideas need collective thought.

Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don’t need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to go there, to gather and think deep thoughts together.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

When years from now people look back on today, they will think the same thing they already do but with more reasons for it.