Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

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

Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.