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1890·Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
I think that yesterday was a crisis in my life. I finished the first part of Renouvier's second Essais and see no reason why his definition of free will—"the sustaining of a thought because I choose to when I might have other thoughts"—need be the definition of an illusion. At any rate, I will assume for the present—until next year—that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.
Alfred Adler·1937Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
David Foster Wallace·2005It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson·1836To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
