Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.

There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.