Philosopher Quotes

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
Time itself comes in drops.
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
To spend life for something which outlasts it.
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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