There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

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.

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man.