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.

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

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.