Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

[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.

Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.