To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.