A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.

Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

The most ancient parts of truth . . . also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They also mediated between still earlier truths and what in those days were novel observations. Purely objective truth, truth in whose establishment the function of giving human satisfaction in marrying previous parts of experience with newer parts played no role whatsoever, is nowhere to be found. The reasons why we call things true is the reason why they are true, for to be true means only to perform this marriage-function.

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

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

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