Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences.

Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.

The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others.

Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.