The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

In this real world of sweat and dirt, it seems to me that when a view of things is 'noble,' that ought to count as presumption against its truth, and as a philosophic disqualification. The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, he can surely be no gentleman.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.