A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.