The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ.

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.

The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.

The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.

It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

I'm always surprised to see the way "friends" will twist things or trash people behind their backs.

I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international struggles for civil rights.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make a contribution to.

The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling.

I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.

You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.