Date of birth: 1842-01-11
Date of death: 1910-08-26
Quotes number: 106
Nationality: American
Profession: Philosopher
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
