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

The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

Truth happens to an idea

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.