Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.