Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

Memory... is an internal rumor.

We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.