Faith is one of the forces by which men live the total absence of it means collapse.
So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way.
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.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation to grow as th...
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...
Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembe...
Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push throu...
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remai...
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease