Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.

[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.

There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

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

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.