We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

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