Our environment encourages us not to be philosophers but partisans.
Be in beta. Do things badly. Abandon perfectionism. Following this advice can seem nearly impossible when pitted against our identity. But when we allow ourselves to go into the rapid iteration of trial and error, like a child learning to walk, the f...
It may be that no religious reconciliation with the absolute totality of things is possible. Some evils, indeed, are ministerial to higher forms of good; but it may be that there are forms of evil so extreme as to enter into no good system whatsoever...
There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, an...
Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" ...
Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.
All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!
There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.
Psychology is the science of mental life
We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.
There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole organism should get into a h...
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to......
Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
I'm the most boring person to talk to.
