Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.

In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

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

[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.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing

The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.