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.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character in the universe, and of the inadequacy of fully to match it [to] the peculiar systems that he knows.

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.