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

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at one age, and other kinds of conception at a later age.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.