If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.

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

Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.

The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.

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.

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

Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.