...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them.

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god.

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.

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.