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

I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.