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

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

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

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

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.