Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and all these abstract whats are concepts. The intelletual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the persceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

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

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.