If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.