“Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.”
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“Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.”
“There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.”
“The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.”
“Man lives for science as well as bread.”
“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.”
“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”
“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”
“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.”
“In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.”
“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence”
“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.”
“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”
“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.”
“To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.”
“Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.”
“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.”
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”
“If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.”
“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”
“Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.”