Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.

... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.