Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.

Effort is a measure of a Man.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.