No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.
The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
You can’t out-perform your self-image.
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.
If it works, it’s true.
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
Choose a self and stand by it.
Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.
An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true.
We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.
The work that leads to a doctor’s degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one’s growth as a man to one’s growth as a specialist.
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.
True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.
It is so human a book that I don’t see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.
The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
Every claim creates an obligation.