deep thinking quotes

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.

What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don’t really think that hard.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.