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

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

The perfection of rottenness.

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass from one concrete object to its habitual concrete successor far more uniformly than is the case with us. In other words, their associations of ideas are almost exclusively by contiguity. So far, however, as any brute might think by abstract characters instead of by association of con cretes, he would have to be admitted to be a reasoner in the true human sense. How far this may take place is quite uncertain.