The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.
There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
The strenuous life tastes better.
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
Agisci come se quel che fai, facesse la differenza. La fa!
Tell him to live by yes and no – yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.