He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

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.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

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.

Truth happens to an idea

For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.