I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes

I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.