Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

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

The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.

When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.