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

"These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

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

"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."

"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true."

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

"Belief creates the actual fact."

"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it."

"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."

"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."

"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

"The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."

"In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start."

"Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done."

"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

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

"Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."

"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."

"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better."

"The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths."

"The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals."

"If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system."

"Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them."

"The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck."

"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."

"The sovereign cure for worry is prayer."

"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state."

"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."

"If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door."

"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."

"Time itself comes in drops."

"In business for yourself, not by yourself."

"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."

"To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal."

"The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds."

"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter."

"To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being."

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

"A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him."

"The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments."

"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."

"Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver."