Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.

Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.

The total mental efficiency of a man is the resultant of the working together of all his faculties. He is too complex a being for any one of them to have the casting vote. If any one of them do have the casting vote, it is more likely to be the strength of his desire and passion, the strength of the interest he takes in what is proposed. Concentration, memory, reasoning power, inventiveness, excellence of the senses, all are subsidiary to this.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.