A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.
Man is an imagining being.
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
Observation and thinking are the two points of departure for all the spiritual striving of man, insofar as he is conscious of such striving. The workings of common sense, as well as the most complicated scientific researches, rest on these two fundamental pillars of our spirit.
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.