Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

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

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.