Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.

Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.