To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.

The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.

However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the mark when we say that our ideas and feelings have it, than the Automatists are when they say they haven't it. As in the night all cats are gray, so in the darkness of metaphysical criticism all causes are obscure. But one has no right to pull the pall over the psychic half of the subject only . . . whilst in the same breath one dogmatizes about material causation as if Hume, Kant, and Lotze had never been born.