Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

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