The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.

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

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.