Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.
If it works, it’s true.
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
Choose a self and stand by it.
Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.
An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true.
We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.
The work that leads to a doctor’s degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one’s growth as a man to one’s growth as a specialist.
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.
True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.
It is so human a book that I don’t see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.
The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
Every claim creates an obligation.
The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.
What holds attention determines action.
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.