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

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

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.

I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.

He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

I’m very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don’t get to the philosophical side.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.

Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.

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