Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.