Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.

Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.

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

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.