The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
Act the part and you will become the part.
The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.
If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.
A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.