Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

In all humilitylet it be said -there's no godin End Realitybut Onenessunto all is All -Whole's Unity.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.

Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.

Mickey Rourke was the Brad Renfro of the '80s.

The one thing you don't want to be is a sucky clean comic. I hate sucky clean comics! It's like Christian rock, bro. I'd rather listen to gospel and Christian rock. That's cheating!

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

There's always a different energy when you're surrounded by a group of women creatives.

The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.

I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one.

So now I know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'd rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone I can't predict.