The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.

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

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.

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.