The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.