Truth is something that happens to an idea.

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.

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.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.