A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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