Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its v…

No particular results then, so far, but only an attitude of orientation, is what the pragmatic method means. The attitude of looking away from first things, pr…

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human bei…