In this real world of sweat and dirt, it seems to me that when a view of things is 'noble,' that ought to count as presumption against its truth, and as a philosophic disqualification. The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, he can surely be no gentleman.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

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

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.