To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced. |
To change one's life: 1. Start immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. |
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. |
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified |
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides. |
To make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy . . . we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague. |
To my way of thinking there's something wrong, or missing, with any person who hasn't got a soft spot in their hearts for an animal of some kind. |
To spend life for something which outlasts it. |
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. |
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. |
Truth happens to an idea. |
Truth in our ideas means their power to work. |
Truth is essentially a relation between two things, an idea, on the one hand, and a reality outside of the idea, on the other. |
Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it. |
Truth is what works. |