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.

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

Agisci come se quel che fai, facesse la differenza. La fa!

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.