An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.