Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.