All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.