There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
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.
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.
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can... . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the ore our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work
To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
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.
Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.
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