Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

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.

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.