Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

A great idea goes through three stages on its way to acceptance: 1) it is dismissed as nonsense, 2) it is acknowledged as true, but insignificant, 3) finally, it is seen to be important, but not really anything new.

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

All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start.

If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.