First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
As Obama prepares to begin the last year of his presidency, he stands in an unusual position on the national stage: He is the rationalist, a creature of intellect rather than emotion.
In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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.
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
In order to keep himself at the top of his condition, to obtain complete mastery of all his powers and possibilities, a man must be good to himself mentally; he must think well of himself.
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!