Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
Source: In Poor Man's College Quotations Collection, ed. Sidney Madwed, AAPEX software, 1994.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott, (Nov 29 1799-1888), US teacher, philosopher, reformer; He started several innovative schools and wrote Conversations with Children on the Gospels, 1836-37.