It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
Instinct leads, logic does but follow.
Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind.
The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.
An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
Man lives for science as well as bread.