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

Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

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

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.