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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.