What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is ‘overruled’ already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility. In short, they mean that we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours and are none of our business.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.