There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.

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

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.