We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.
Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.
We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.
Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!
To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.
The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.
We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.
Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.
To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.
Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.