Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

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.

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way