Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.
Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.
Before operating on a patient's brain... I must first understand his mind: his identity, his values, what makes his life worth living, and what devastation makes it reasonable to let that life end.
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.