The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.