Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse.
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that att...
Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man...
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
It is only by risking ... that we live at all.
When you have to make a choice and don't make it that is in itself a choice.
Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perce...
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another but what there is is very important.'
Be willing to have it so acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
The exercise of prayer in those who habitually exert it must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.
All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.