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.

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

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

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.

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.