Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.

Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?