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

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" Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. "

" Man lives for science as well as bread. "

" 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. "

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

" If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. "

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

" There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. "

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

" To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced. "

" 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. "

" It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. "

" The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. "

" There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. "

" Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. "

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

" 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. "

" Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. "

" We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. "

" Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. "

" An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. "

" The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way. "

" There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. "

" Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. "

" The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. "

" I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. "

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

" Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not. "

" 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. "

" The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. "