Philosopher Quotes

In business for yourself, not by yourself.
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
Man lives for science as well as bread.
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
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