Individuality is founded in feeling

...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.

It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.

An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete... Its motor consequences are what clinch it.

Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.