If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of trigonometry, the facts of history, the properties of material things, are all known to us as definite systems or groups of objects which cohere in an order fixed by innumerable iterations, and of which any one part reminds us of the others.