Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.