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| The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. | | Genius | |
| The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease. | | Success | |
| The faith circle is so congruous with human nature that the only explanation of the veto that intellectualists pass upon it must be sought in the offensive character to them of the faiths of certain concrete persons. | | Uncategorized | |
| The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. | | Uncategorized | |
| The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely ''understandable'' world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. | | Life | |
| The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. | | Life; Living | |
| The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. | | Discovery | |
| The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can change his life by changing his attitude of mind | | Discovery | |
| The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be. | | Uncategorized | |
| The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. | | Uncategorized | |
| The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives | | Change; Generations; Revolution | |
| The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. | | Uncategorized | |
| The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves have been flown for religious ideals. | | Uncategorized | |
| The human individual lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use. He energizes below his maximum, and he behaves below his optimum. . . . it is only an inveterate habit -- the habit of inferiority to our full self. | | Uncategorized | |
| The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. | | Ideas | |
| The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature | | Uncategorized | |
