A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.