Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do.
The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.
Events are influenced by our very great desires.
Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.
Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
Lets take full advantage of this discovery.
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.
The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other’s being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.
Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.