Cyclical Thinking Quotes

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Fear is fear of fear, I think.

If we [Blacks] always do what we’ve always done, then we will always get what we’ve always got.

Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.

Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.

Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity.)

What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!

So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

...the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it.

If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?

Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!

I sweet potato what I sweet potato.

Because I like to think, I find it difficult to sleep, and because I find it difficult to sleep, I think.

History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

So much of your present experience is based on your previous thought. Thought leads to experience, which leads to thought, which leads to experience. This can produce constant joy when the Sponsoring Thought is joyous. It can, and does, produce continual hell when the Sponsoring Thought is hellatious.

The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

There are no new stressful thoughts. They're all recycled.