💬 Quotes

"In the marketing orientation man experiences himself as a commodity on the market, his value not as use value, but as exchange value."

"Selfishness and self-love, far from being identical, are actually opposites. The selfish person does not love himself too much, but too little; in fact he hates himself."

"If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all."

"Reason is man's instrument for comprehending the world, for finding his way through it, whereas faith is man's instrument for an ultimate relatedness to another human being and to himself."

"The investigation of truth is the grand object of our intellectual existence; and the pursuit of it is calculated to elevate and purify the mind."

"Attention is to the mind what the microscope is to the eye; it magnifies and reveals objects which would otherwise escape our notice."

"In the moral as in the physical world, the most important truths are often the most simple, and lie nearest to our view, if we have but the candor to perceive them."

"Hypothesis should be regarded merely as a scaffolding for the erection of a building, to be removed as soon as the structure is completed."

"Memory depends, in a great measure, upon the intensity with which the original impression was made, and the degree of attention which was given to it at the time."

"True wisdom consists in the power of forming a correct estimate of evidence, and in the habit of proportioning our assent strictly to the nature and degree of that evidence."

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

"If you are depressed, it is because you are choosing to be depressed."

"There is no such thing as stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts."

"Guilt is the most useless of all the emotional zones. It keeps you immobilized in the present by worrying about something you did in the past."

"Approval-seeking is a habit that will destroy you if you let it, because it is impossible to live your life to please everyone else."

"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone, the future is not guaranteed."

"The fundamental principles of our knowledge are not deduced from reasoning, but are the immediate gift of intuition, forming the very groundwork upon which all our subsequent reasoning must rest."

"Attention may be regarded as the most important of all our intellectual faculties; it is the spring which sets all the other powers in motion, and upon its degree and quality the perfection of our memory and judgment entirely depends."

"The laws of the human mind can only be discovered by an inductive process—by a careful and patient examination of particular facts, and by carefully distinguishing between the phenomena which are primitive and those which are the result of habit and education."

"Imagination is not merely a creative faculty that recombines past impressions; it is an active principle of sympathy and foresight that enables us to anticipate the consequences of human actions and to enter into the feelings of others."