“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.”
“Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.”
“There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.”
“Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.”
“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.”
“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the ''as if'' technique.”
“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.”
“An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.”
“Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.”
“Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
“Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.”
“The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.”
“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.”
“The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.”
“To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.”
“If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.”
“Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.”
“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”
“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
“If merely ''feeling good'' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”
“The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.”
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
“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.”
“Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.”
“A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.”
“For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.”
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”
“Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”