The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to; the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on.

If it works, it's true.

Habit is the great flywheel of society.

You do not sing because you're happy, you're happy because you sing.

It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.