Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

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.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

Choose a self and stand by it.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.