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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.