Philosopher Quotes

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
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