Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.