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There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change; (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions.
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.
There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.
Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
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.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.
A winner's attitude: it may be difficult, but it's possible. A loser's attitude: It may be possible, but it's too difficult.
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.
The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.