It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, it's an evolved machine that we carry with us.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.
I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
The only greatness for man is immortality.