Sometimes I think and other times I am. РPaul Val̩ry, Vari̩t̩: Cantiques spirituels, 1924

…the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it… – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clich̩s. РH.L. Mencken, Prejudices, 1925