...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be a public calamity.

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

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

[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.