To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.
Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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