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

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

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

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.