We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.