Thinking Quotes

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I’ve still got some work to do.

I wasn’t prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.

People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

Even when I think I’m wrong, I’m right. I am all-knowing.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are… That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity… because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know.

I think that I am here, on this earth, to present a report on it, but to whom I don’t know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place has meaning because it changes into memory.

You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies and remote figures respecting the earth, sun, and all sorts of things — for I think that is the true way (corrected by judgment) to work out a discovery.

I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.