The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.
Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.
The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer – and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature’s particulars.
Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.
Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.
Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
All religions begin with the cry Help.
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.
The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.
Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.
If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.