The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
As the brain changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream.
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
The perfection of rottenness.
How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.
Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do.
The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.
Events are influenced by our very great desires.
Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.
Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
Lets take full advantage of this discovery.
In business for yourself, not by yourself.