... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

Every claim creates an obligation.

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.