What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.
We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
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