In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and intellectual factors that make up personality.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.