The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality. I never had any philosophic instruction, the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave.

In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those in a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous, and long-drawn-out. But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to a contentless unit, and the years grow hollow and collapse.

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.