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

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

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.

You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Habit is the great flywheel of society.

When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.