In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins.
I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
Instinct leads, logic does but follow.
Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind.
The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.
An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?