Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
Man lives for science as well as bread.
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
Faith is one of the forces by which men live the total absence of it means collapse.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for and is therefore right in postulating may be enveloped i...
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.
My experience is what I agree to attend to.
In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought of the future, and with the present narrowed down to some one simple emotion or sensation of the bod...
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general head.