Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.

The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

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

A winner's attitude: it may be difficult, but it's possible. A loser's attitude: It may be possible, but it's too difficult.

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.