A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
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.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
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 man is literally what he thinks.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.