The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.