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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.


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.


The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the Bitch-Goddess success. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease.


If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.


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.


Man lives for science as well as bread.


If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.


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.


If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.


Better risk loss of truth than chance of error.


The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.


Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.


Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.


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.


Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.