A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.