Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all
others, is it not the arrival read more

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all
others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

What exile from himself can flee?
To zones, though more and more remote,
Still, still pursues, where'er read more

What exile from himself can flee?
To zones, though more and more remote,
Still, still pursues, where'er I be,
The blight of life--the demon Thought.

Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than
their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd read more

Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than
their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by
study, or consultation with casuists.
- Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

Learning without thought is labor lost.

Learning without thought is labor lost.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of read more

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.