Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.
Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.
This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.
If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.
We have control over the work of our hands, but little over the working of the soul. But yet we must yield to it, for without it we have nothing.
I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.
Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.
On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and teach and raise a kid and paint the house.
There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn't work like that... There's a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.
The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.
Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
