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“Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.”

Men Mind Ignorance Pride Activity Labor Slavery Luxury Introducing Distress Idleness Power Of The Mind Dishonor

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.”

Ifs Mind Real Turns Love Is Pleasure Objects Activity Draws Bounds Impression Faculty Within You Inclination Awakened Incline

Book:The Divine Comedy: The Unabridged Classic

Source: The Divine Comedy: The Unabridged Classic

“And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: ‘A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being ... It is here ... you may touch him, and see a profound change.’ Memory, mental activity, mind alone, could not hold him; but moral attention and action could hold him completely.”

Men Mind May Doe Feelings Action Memories Attention Moral Activity Profound Sensibility

Book:The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

Source: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

“Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.”

Mind Ends Happiness Joy Perfect Virtue Exercise Activity Goodness Laughter Aim Finals Active Practicals Conformity

Author:Aristotle

“The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.”

Mind Firsts Made Choices Next Found Fear Growth Change Results Path Activity Creating Alternatives Destination Makers Making Changes Starting Anew

Author:John Schaar