Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James

How comes the world to be here at all instead of the nonentity which might be imagined in its place? ... from nothing to being there is no logical bridge.

Religious fermentation is always a symptom of the intellectual vigor of a society; and it is only when they forget that they are hypotheses and put on rationalistic and authoritative pretensions, that our faiths do harm.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.