Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.

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.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.