There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may af...
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion action will.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
An idea to be suggestive must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful he must obey his impulse.
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the large...
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What expe...
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit it is worse than a chance lost it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
As Charles Lamb says there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances be...
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, whi...
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.