"The true'to put it very briefly, is..." - Quote by William James

“We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.”

“In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.”

“The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.”

“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.”

“There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.”

“I trust that absolutes have gradations.”

“The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?”

“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”

“Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.”