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

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

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

The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.