However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the mark when we say that our ideas and feelings have it, than the Automatists are when they say they haven't it. As in the night all cats are gray, so in the darkness of metaphysical criticism all causes are obscure. But one has no right to pull the pall over the psychic half of the subject only . . . whilst in the same breath one dogmatizes about material causation as if Hume, Kant, and Lotze had never been born.

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.

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

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