Belief creates the actual fact.

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.

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

Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.