The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

Lets take full advantage of this discovery