The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.

Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.

Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.

The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.

Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.

The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.

Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.

The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.

A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.

I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.

I might not come home with hardware, but I'm winning.

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

Maybe he [Bernie Sanders] still thinks about the Democratic Party as the party of the New Deal.

And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.

People, you have six senses! The last one is common! Use it!

Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.