[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.

...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.

Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once. Each relatively stable phase of equilibrium in such a structure is marked by what we may call a new set of habits.

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.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

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