The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.