Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the rest in almost any geometrical pattern you might propose to me, and you might then say that that pattern was the thing prefigured beforehand, and that the other beans were mere irrelevance and packing material. Our dealings with Nature are just like this.

Even if matter could do every outward thing that God does, the idea of it would not work as satisfactorily, because the chief callfor a God on modern men's part is for a being who will inwardly recognize them and judge them sympathetically. Matter disappoints this craving of our ego, so God remains for most men the truer hypothesis, and indeed remains so for definite pragmatic reasons.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.