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

The fish will be the last to discover water.

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones.

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

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.