Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience

I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives

Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.