We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.
I don’t see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.
The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals.
The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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 in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
Most men’s friendships are too inarticulate.
The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
The word ‘cause’ is an altar to an unknown god.
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.