I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.

All religions begin with the cry Help.

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