“An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.”

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.

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

That which is most personal, is most interesting.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

But then, being a sort of rebellious, philosophical thinker, I’m always looking for new ways to shake things up.

I’ve always been a very rebellious, philosophical person.

People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics

That’s an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone… forever?

People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet’s destiny is to love.

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.