From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe) means the difference between a general habit of wariness and one of trust.

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have so carefully posited 'reality' ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.