Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference.

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.

I cannot squeeze the stars

A story isn't a good one unless it has a good listener

Words are mere bubbles of water but deeds are drops of gold.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.

I'm never sick when you are well.

A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

It’s hard to look in charge when you’re hunched over like Quasimodo.