The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
From William James
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
Time itself comes in drops.
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