Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.