The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.