The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.
Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
Truth in our ideas means their power to work.
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success is our national disease.
True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
I will act as if I do make a difference.
The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.
My experience is what I agree to attend to.
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.
Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
Every claim creates an obligation.
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.
Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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